Inhuman Networks

Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvGrant Bollmer

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Social media’s connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection argues that the human nature revealed by social media imagines network technology and data as models for behavior online. Covering a wide range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects, Grant Bollmer examines the emergence of “the network” as a model for relation in the 1700s and 1800s and follows it through marginal, often forgotten articulations of technology, biology, economics, and the social. From this history, Bollmer examines contemporary controversies surrounding social media, extending out to the influence of network models on issues of critical theory, politics, popular science, and neoliberalism. By moving through the past and present of network media, Inhuman Networks demonstrates how contemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where “the human” is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-02-22
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt395 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501340178

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1. Introduction: Connectivity, Flow, CitizenshipPart One: Network Archaeologies 2. Biology: Vital Technologies, Anatomical Networks3. Society: Railroads, Red Scares, and Racism4. Economy: Banking on ConnectionPart Two: Nodal Citizens5. Death: Living Forever as Automated Data6. Labor: Giving Life to (Mobile) Fixed Capital7. Truth: The Politics of Performing the Total SelfPart Three: Beyond Social Media, or, a World Without People8. Contagion: The Inevitable Failure of Connectivity9. (Political) Theory: How to Disempower Friends and Pathologize PeopleBibliographyIndex

Part an archaeology of connectivity, part critical analysis of contemporary culture, Inhuman Networks offers an inspiring take for media studies. Grant Bollmer’s rich, multi-layered book shows that social media does not just mediate but performs a subtle yet effective moral code: the networks prescribe senses of the self, community, value and direction. The so-called human exists only if it routes.