Subjectivity and the Hauntology of the Digital

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://acta.wn.uw.edu.pl/2021/01/25/acta-philologica-56/" target="_blank" >http://acta.wn.uw.edu.pl/2021/01/25/acta-philologica-56/</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Subjectivity and the Hauntology of the Digital
Original language description
This paper attempts to re-assess the cultural, political and ethical implications of the relationship between the digital technological apparatus (the algorithm, the machine) of the digital archive, and the ways the digital record, and its pertaining perceptions, interpretations and uses direct attention to challenges facing the conceptualizations of digital subjectivity. Questions about the ownership of data, the democratization of access, the inadvertent coupling of privacy and transparence, or the much-capitalized-upon issue of digital security, all accentuate that the concept of the archive is always-already linked to the spectrality of the subject: where is this subject located, and how does it come to be? Who owns the data? And who owns the archive? If (the locus of) ownership sublimates in spectrality, what becomes of agency and responsibility – especially in our current time when the increasing reliance on the algorithmic processing of global and local data pools have become paramount in producing new forms of knowledge? The paper argues that the hauntology of the archive also necessitates the re-thinking of the ethical dimension of digital subjectivity, and concludes by offering two examples of practice for the ways subjectivity manifests in the specific social practice of mourning in a digital context.
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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