Anecdotal EvidencePub Date : 2020-02-20DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190065713.003.0011
S. Cubitt
{"title":"Part 2: Remaking the Mass Image","authors":"S. Cubitt","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190065713.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190065713.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"‘Is it possible to differentiate between dominant and oppositional networks, for example? Or are they all so inextricably tied that even an analytical separation of them becomes useless?’ asks Arturo Escobar (2008: 11). Could a reconstituted form of image database exist? Could the mass image engender an oppositional agency that does not simply replicate the teleology of capital? If so, would there still exist a subject capable of responding?...","PeriodicalId":295919,"journal":{"name":"Anecdotal Evidence","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133095815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anecdotal EvidencePub Date : 2020-02-20DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190065713.003.0004
S. Cubitt
{"title":"Becoming Human","authors":"S. Cubitt","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190065713.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190065713.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Iron Man 2 (John Favreau, 2010) focuses on a man isolated from his environment by a protective suit, and from his friends, family, and romantic interest by the conviction that he is dying as a result of the suit itself. While Tony Stark performs the role of billionaire playboy, Iron Man perceives the world in a doubled form, as perspectival image and as data diagrams in his heads-up display. The chapter gives a brief history of data visualisation, the most important visual language since perspective and now more dominant, to seek out the difficulty of being human in isolation, and at a moment when regimes for understanding the world are in flux. The chapter includes a discussion of the fictional inventor as a paragon of a mythical form of labour, and traces his construction to a new version of Hegel’s master-slave dialectic, engaging Stark in competition with his AI.","PeriodicalId":295919,"journal":{"name":"Anecdotal Evidence","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117236888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}