Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self

Donatella Della Ratta is Associate Professor of Communications and Media Studies at John Cabot University, Italy. She specializes in digital media and networked technologies with a focus on the Arab world. Geert Lovink is Director of the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, and author of Sad by Design (2019).Teresa Numerico is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at Roma Tre University, Italy. Her research interests lie at the intersection between philosophy, ethics and politics of technology with a focus on artificial intelligence. Peter Sarram is Associate Professor of Communications and Media Studies at John Cabot University, Italy. His work revolves around questions of popular culture, social identities and technology.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Authentic Actions Within Network Algorithms.- 3. Can the Dividual Self Be Organized?.- 4. The Divided Subject – New Forms of the Online Self Regarding “Hate Speech”.- 5. Personalities Without People.- 6. Art Entr’acte I.- 7. Militant Proximity:  Digital Cameras and State Violence in Israel/Palestine.- 8. Observations on Potency and Self.- 9. Aesthetics by Algorithms: Sovereignty and Disappearance in Palestine.- 10. Selfies as Augmentation of Reality.- 11. Perspective Collectives of the Shared Self.- 12. Art Entr’acte II.- 13. Saving Anonymous.- 14. Anyone-subjectivity and the Grotesque Media Body: Alternative Configurations of the Online Self on the Deep Vernacular Web.- 15. Selfie Communism.- 16. Networked Participation: Selfie Protest and Ephemeral Public Spheres.- 17. Heretical Facial Machines, or the Ambivalence of Faciality in the Politics of Digital Dissent of Anonymous.- 18. Art Entr’acte III.