1st Edition

Data Publics Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy

Edited By Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer Copyright 2020
246 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Data has emerged as a key component that determines how interactions across the world are structured, mediated and represented. This book examines these new data publics and the areas in which they become operative, via analysis of politics, geographies, environments and social media platforms. By claiming to offer a mechanism to translate every conceivable occurrence into an abstract code... Read more

Introduction

 

Section One: Politics

Chapter One: In Praise of Plasticity

Matthew Fuller

Chapter Two: Data Capitalism, Sociogenic Prediction and Recursive Indeterminacies

Luciana Parisi and Ezekiel Dixon-Román 

Chapter Three: Emotariat Accelerationism and the Republic of Data 

Ignacio Valero

Section Two: Environments

Chapter Four: Unearthly Domain: the enigmatic data publics of satellites  

Stephen Graham

Chapter Five: Sensing Air and Creaturing Data

Jennifer Gabrys

Chapter Six: Offsite: data, materiality, landscape, compression

Benj Gerdes

Chapter Seven: Fracking Sociality: architecture, real estate and the internet’s new urbanism 

Louis Moreno

Section Three: Platforms

Chapter Eight: City-Making in the Age of Platforms

Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer

Chapter Nine: The Aesthetic Society

Lev Manovich

Chapter Ten: Publics or Post-Publics? Contemporary expression after the mobile Phone   

Ravi Sundaram

Biography

Peter Mörtenböck is Professor of Visual Culture at TU Wien’s School of Architecture and Planning, and Professorial Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, London.

Helge Mooshammer is a cultural theorist based at Goldsmiths College, London and TU Wien.