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Record Nr.

UNINA9910520090403321

Titolo

The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self : A Savage Journey into the Heart of Digital Cultures / / edited by Donatella Della Ratta, Geert Lovink, Teresa Numerico, Peter Sarram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030654979

3030654974

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXI, 379 pages) : 58 illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour

Disciplina

302.231

Soggetti

Digital media

Social media

Science - Social aspects

Digital and New Media

Social Media

Science and Technology Studies

Identitat digital

Jo (Filosofia)

Xarxes socials en línia

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Authentic Actions Within Network Algorithms -- 3. Can the Dividual Self Be Organized? -- 4. The Divided Subject - New Forms of the Online Self Regarding "Hate Speech" -- 5. Personalities Without People -- 6. Art Entr'acte I -- 7. Militant Proximity: Digital Cameras and State Violence in Israel/Palestine -- 8. Observations on Potency and Self -- 9. Aesthetics by Algorithms: Sovereignty and Disappearance in Palestine -- 10. Selfies as Augmentation of Reality -- 11. Perspective Collectives of the Shared Self -- 12. Art Entr'acte II -- 13. Saving Anonymous -- 14. Anyone-subjectivity and the Grotesque Media Body: Alternative Configurations of the Online Self on the Deep



Vernacular Web -- 15. Selfie Communism -- 16. Networked Participation: Selfie Protest and Ephemeral Public Spheres -- 17. Heretical Facial Machines, or the Ambivalence of Faciality in the Politics of Digital Dissent of Anonymous -- 18. Art Entr'acte III.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume investigates our dissonant and exuberant existence online. As social media users, we know we're under surveillance, yet we continue to click, like, love and share ourselves online as if nothing was. So, how do we overcome the current online identity regime? Can we overthrow the rule of Narcissus and destroy the planetary middle class subject? In this catalogue of strategies, the reader will find stories on hacker groups, gaming platforms in the occupied territories, art objects, selfies, augmented reality, Gen Z autoethnographies, love and life. The authors of this anthology believe we cannot simply put vanity aside. A rational analysis of platform capitalism is not going to convince the TikTok youngsters nor liberate us from Zuckerbergian indentured servitude. Do we really need to wade through the subjective mud and 'learn more' about online aesthetics? The answer is yes.