Autonomy, Economy, and Colony: Practicing Human Identity in a State of Algorithmic Transition

Thor Madsen — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800

Recent studies in the social and political sciences are uncovering how today’s societal disruptions and increasingly pervasive technological advances are uniquely affecting people’s personal and collective sense of “self.” These effects are becoming especially prevalent as human activities become increasingly tracked, formed into data objects, managed, and transacted algorithmically. This paper will explore several aspects of this transformation and their impact on the performative of conceptualizing the self. They include autonomy in decision-making, forming relationships, and the trend from a neoliberal ideal of self-entrepreneur toward a “post-neoliberal” model of self-colonization. Paralleling these trends is the emergence of counter-narrative strategies for navigating the self, including an experiment in collective resistance referred to as participative circumvention.

Rome Fusion City

You Jia Zhu — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0800

Rome is a physical place, a container of memories, and simultaneously a psychical entity. This paper takes a present-day reader on a meandering stroll through the eternal city with the twelfth-century guidebook Mirabilia Urbis Romae and the fourteenth-century map of Rome by Fra Paolino da Venezia as companions to explore the relationship between place (or location), history, cartography, imagination, and memory.

Western Tributaries

Autonomy, Economy, and Colony: Practicing Human Identity in a State of Algorithmic Transition

Rome Fusion City