Subjectivity and the Hauntology of the Digital

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Subjectivity and the Hauntology of the Digital

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Subjectivity and the Hauntology of the Digital

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50900 - Other social sciences

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Acta Philologica

ISSN

0065-1524

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

56

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

PL - Polská republika

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

85-98

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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