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29Ashes to ashes, digit to digit: the nonhuman temporality of Facebook’s FeedSubjectivity 30 (4). 2023.This article examines how Facebook’s Feed, its dynamic user interface, incorporates and refashions the capacity to temporalize cultural material and experience that has classically been attributed to subjectivity. I problematize the ambiguous historicity of digital culture across the experience of the ordinary that it produces by arranging the subjective time and ‘ruined’ bits of cultural material into algorithmic timelines. Drawing on recent media theory, I underscore the irreducible alienness …Read more
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91At Noon: (Post)Nihilistic Temporalities in The Age of Machine-Learning Algorithms That SpeakThe Agonist : A Nietzsche Circle Journal 17 (2). 2023.This article recapitulates and develops the attempts in the Nietzschean traditions to address and overcome the proliferation of nihilism that Nietzsche predicted to unfold in the next 200 years (WP 2). Nietzsche approached nihilism not merely as a psychology but as a labyrinthic and pervasive historical process whereby the highest values of culture and founding assumptions of philosophical thought prevented the further flourishing of life. Therefore, he thought nihilism had to be encountered and…Read more
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131An event-without-witness: a Nietzschean theory of the digital will to power as the will to temporalizeThe Agonist : A Nietzsche Circle Journal 16 (2): 83-93. 2022.This article offers a Nietzschean theory of digital will to power to conceptualize the temporality of social media feeds run by algorithms. Stylistic and methodological temporalities of Nietzsche are discussed as well as their influence in subsequent social theory of political technologies. The paradox of heavy investment in both subjective expression and nonhuman temporalization in social media milieus is addressed with the concept of an event-without-witness drawn from Nietzsche’s account of h…Read more
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