Technology, Urban Space and the Networked Community

✍ Scribed by Saswat Samay Das (editor), Ananya Roy Pratihar (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection stages a dynamic scholarly debate about the ambivalent workings of technocapitalism and humanism in urban spaces. Such workings are intended to provide multiple forms of autonomy and empowerment but instead create intolerable contradictions that are experienced in the form of a slavish adherence to machines. Representing the novelty of a post-anthropocentric grammar, this book points towards a new ethical and political praxis. It challenges the anthropocentrism of bio-politics and neoliberalism in order to express the constitutive potential of an eco-sensible ‘new earth’.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1: Biopolitics, Discipline and Governmentality
References
2: The Market Lives on Death: The Endocolonizing Logic of the Fascist Moment
Fascism?
Policing the Post-colony
The Consummation of Consumption
Conclusion
References
3: Technology and Biopolitics: A Deleuzian Perspective
Agamben on COVID-19 and the Rise of Biopolitics
Deleuze and Societies of Control
Surveillance Technologies and the Biopolitics of Control
Stiegler and the New Proletarianization of Consumers
Technology and the End of Biopolitics
Conclusion
References
4: The Quandaries of Machinic Subjectivity in Félix Guattari’s Chaosmosis
The Heart of Human Subjectivity
Machinic Hypertext
Machinic Subjectivation
Semioflux and Capitalist Subjectivity
Pathic Time
Pathic Knowledge
Conclusion
References
5: Fabulation in a Time of Algorithmic Ecology: Making the Future Possible Again
Introduction: In the Undergrowth of Algorithmic Ecologies
What Is It Like to Be a Generative Adversarial Network?
The Subjugated (Disindividuated) Groups of Social Media
Fabulation: Long-Circuiting the Algocene
References
6: The Surveillance Axiomatic
Cartographies of Surveillance
Sense
Knowledge
Vigilance
Desire
Running in the Forest: Cybernetic Media and the Surveillance Axiomatic
Becoming-Control
References
7: Inside the Matrix: Matriarchs, Materialisms, and Machinic Being
Conceptions of Technology
Feminist Responses to Technology
Cyborg Feminism
Cyberfeminism
Technofeminism
New Materialist and Posthumanist Feminisms
Recuperating the Machinic
Technocapitalism
References
8: Posthuman Urban Spaces in Dave Eggers’ the Circle
Informational and Posthuman Performativity
Information, Performative Cartography and the Neoliberal Gothic
Conclusion: The Subjects in Posthuman Urbanscapes
Works Cited
9: From Miasma Theory to Digital Ghost Town: Tales of Infrastructure and Social Politics in the Twenty-First-Century Megalopolis
Megacities, Media Urbanity and the Politics of Temporal Publics
Props and/as Infrastructure
Multiple Screens and Questions of Unity: “Up North” (Tope Oshin, Nigeria 2019)
No Politics Without Media: Lucifer (Prithviraj Sukumaran, India 2019)
Welcome to the Digital Ghost Town: “At Dusk” (Hwang Sok-yong, South Korea 2015, Trans. 2019)
References
10: The In/Visible City: Cinema, Control and Contemporary Hong Kong
Introduction
Many Metropoles
An Idea in Cinema
Joker
Hong Kong
October 2019
Masks
Towards a Technology of Affect
What Remains
References
11: Techno-Medieval: Rise and Fall of Contemporary Metropolitan Networks
Introduction
The Metropolis at a Glimpse: The Advent of the Big City and the Modern Individual, Dialectics of Public and Private Realm
The Rise of Utopias: Projecting the Spatio-politics of the Modernist Network Society
Rising Dystopias: Emergence of Oppression and Control and the Decay of Urban Realm and the Network Society
Concluding Remarks: From Broader Inclusiveness Through Restrictive Exclusions, and the Next
References
Index