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Volume 11, Issue 2-3
  • ISSN: 2045-5879
  • E-ISSN: 2045-5887

Abstract

In this article, I use Reiner Schürmann’s interpretation of Heidegger’s ‘diremption’ as a framework to examine how subjectivity is constructed in light of surveillance technology. I explore the use of algorithmic technologies – first in the context of surveillance capitalism and second in the context of art – in order to make a case for the present epoch as a site of movement towards a fundamentally multiple subject, whose singularization emerges from its embodied relationship to technology.

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Being with the machine: The diremptive subject and algorithmic multiplicity
Visual Inquiry 11, 157 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1386/vi_00076_1
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Keyword(s): algorithms; Martin Heidegger; post-humanism; Reiner Schürmann; subjectivity; swarm art

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