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QOA: Computers, Machines, & Cyberspace
Zeros and Ones: Digital Women + The New Technoculture — Sadie Plant (1997) nets The growth of the Net has been continuous with the way it works. No central hub or command structure has constructed it, and its emergence has been that of a parasite, rather than an organizing host. It has installed none of the hardware on which it works, simply hitching a largely free ride on existing computers,…
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The discursive effect of the term postindustrial society is to deny the validity of positions rooted in the analysis of industrial society. The theory of postindustrial society introduces a break in the strong sense, one that reduces to insignificance those social dimensions that precede the break. After the term postindustrial is introduced the social theorist can no longer claim as significant for analysis those features of society that belong to the industrial period. The theorist of postindustrialism has thus redefined social reality, has reconstituted the field of analysis, making invalid areas of experience that are not characteristic of the new model. This process of cancellation is the power effect of the totalizing term. Totalization introduces a theoretical zero-sum game, a game that has been played over and over again in the history of social theory, in which theories are pitted against one another like two bulls in springtime fighting for control of a group of cows.
Mark Poster, "The Cunning of Totalization" (from "The Mode of Information", 1990)
In modern society, consumer objects represented social status; in postmodernity, they express one‘s identity.
Poster, Mark. 2004. Consumption and digital commodities in the everyday. Cultural Studies 18, no. 2: 409–423.
Superpanopticon: Anarchitecture, Information, and computer programming
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Excerpt fromMichael Truscello’s The Architecture of Information: Open Source Software and Tactical Poststructuralist Anarchism
4. Architect Lebbeus Woods, whose “anarchitecture” attempts to create “freespaces” through indeterminate structures, identifies the relationship between architecture and ideology: “While architects speak of designing space that satisfies human needs, it is actually human needs that are being shaped to satisfy designed space and the abstract systems of thought and organization on which design is based” (279). Mark Poster makes a similar claim for information architects when he discusses the impact of the Superpanopticon: “Surveillance by means of digitally encoded information constitutes new subjects by the language employed in databases” (Mode 94). Architecture, whether it refers to buildings or databases, constructs subject positions through the spatialization of power. Much has been written about the architecture of bricks and mortar, but very little, if anything, has been written about the architecture of information, the discourse of computer programming; and this is so even as the two architectures become inseparable.[4] This essay engages a variety of discourses on the sometimes liberatory architectural models of what Todd May calls “tactical poststructuralist anarchism.” In particular, the model of the software engineer as a subject working within and creating autonomous spaces, a tactical anarchism for the information architect represented by CatB, offers an instance of resistance that defies the monolithic rendering of the surveillance society described by Poster and others, an almost cyborgian moment in which information architects “seize the tools that write them” for the purpose of a tactical, temporary “uprising,” to use Hakim Bey’s preferred term.
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The database creates a "new language on top of those already existing [...] that uses the norm to constitute individuals and define deviants."
Mark Poster, The Mode of Information, (pg 95) on”Foucault and Databases”
Electronic data is unique because it creates relationships among pieces of information that do not exist in those relationships outside of the database.
Mark Poster, The Mode of Information, (pg 96) on"Foucault and Databases"
