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Acknowledgements
The author would like to thank John Mowitt, Jane Blocker, Caroline and Bernard Stiegler, Anna Rosensweig, Jeannine Murray-Román, and Corbin Treacy. Special thanks to Charlotte Taubel, Rita Kompelmakher, and Cole Pulice for their care throughout the years.
Notes
1 Rouvroy, “The Digital Regime of Truth,” 7
2 Simondon, L’Individuation psychique et collective, 18.
3 Ibid., 22.
4 Co-founded in 2012 by Paul Willemark, Paolo Vignola, Alexander Wilson, Benoît Dillet and myself, the nootechnics collective has organized international events in Kent, London, Rome, and Nijmegen to promote discussion and foster debates on the importance of technics and technology in shaping processes of individuation. Website: www.nootechnics.org.
5 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/special-report-the-worlds-largest-data-centers/worlds-largest-data-center-350-e-cermak/. 30 September 2015.
6 Thayne, “Friends Like Mine: The Production of Socialized Subjectivity in the Attention Economy.”
7 Hansen, Feed-Forward, 40.
8 http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/. 2 April 2016.
9 Edmond Husserl points to the distinction between momentary grasping and enduring act. While the duration of the act of selection is crucial to thinking about notions of attention, we will focus for now on a notion of primary retention as a non-differentiated act.
10 Stiegler, De la misère symbolique, 189.
11 Goodman and Parisi, “Machines of Memory,” 343.
12 Chun, Programmed Visions, 149.
13 Ibid., 34.
14 Concerning the notion of hypomnemata, see Foucault, “L’écriture de soi.”
15 Simondon, Du mode d’existence des objets techniques, 59.
16 In “How employers tracking your health can cross the line and become Big Brother” financial journalist Suzanne McGee questions the possible intrusion into one’s personal life when companies seek to use the data collected by the wearable to measure financial rather than health benefits from their employees. The Guardian, Friday 1 May 2015. Important here, and not mentioned in the article, is the competition fostered by companies to have their employees enrolled in contest: who walks the most, who sleeps enough, who has the healthiest heartbeat, who has regular intercourse. Not only the best employee of the week is elected based on the tracking and extraction of data but such bio-regulation takes place in a wider system of endless labor.
17 Lifeloggers are people who use wearable technologies to capture a large portion of their life. The lifelog information captured via devices are usually deposited into other devices, such as a computer, to digitally document one’s life.
18 “The expression the face introduces into the world does not defy the feebleness of my powers, but my ability for power. The face, still a thing among things, breaks through the form that nevertheless delimits it. This means concretely: the face speaks to me and thereby invites me to a relation incommensurate with a power exercised, be it enjoyment or knowledge.” Levinas, Totality and Infinity, 198.
19 Parisi, Contagious Architecture, IX.
20 See definition of smart, http://www.wordreference.com/definition/smart.
21 See definition of smart systems, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_system. Actuation means the operation that is responsible for moving and controlling the mechanism of a system.
22 The elemental designates the dynamics through which networks operate above or below the human subject. The elemental aspect of media network, its ambient characteristic, thus points to the lack of human control regarding the operations that constitute twenty-first-century media. See Hansen, Feed-forward.
23 Simondon, L’Invention dans les techniques, 85.
24 Ibid., 230.
25 Ibid., 87.
26 Simondon, Du mode d’existence des objets techniques, 2.
27 Simondon, Sur la technique, 317.
28 Ibid., 35.
29 Ibid., 35–36.
30 See, Yuk Hui, On the Existence of Digital Objects.
31 Simondon, Imagination et invention, 4.
32 Ibid., 12.
33 Ibid., 9.
34 Ibid., 3.
35 Nony, “Revolution in Tragic Times, or What Can a Philosophy of Dividuality Do Today?”
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Anaïs Nony
Anaïs Nony is a postdoctoral fellow with the Winthrop-King Institute in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University. Her current research and writing focus on digital aesthetics, video art, and philosophy of technique. Authors of several articles, book chapters, and edited volumes, she is the co-founder of the international collective Nootechnics, and an editorial member of the peer reviewed journal La Deleuziana. Email: [email protected]