Beschreibung:
Peter Mörtenböck is Professor of Visual Culture at TU Wien's School of Architecture and Planning, and Professorial Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College, London.
Data has emerged as a key component that determines how interactions across the world are structured, mediated and represented. This book examines these new data publics and the areas in which they become operative, via analysis of politics, geographies, environments and social media platforms.
Introduction ; Section One: Politics ; 1. In Praise of Plasticity ; 2. Data Capitalism, Sociogenic Prediction and Recursive Indeterminacies ; 3. Emotariat Accelerationism and the Republic of Data ; Section Two: Environments ; 4. Unearthly Domain: the enigmatic data publics of satellites ; 5. Sensing Air and Creaturing Data ; 6. Offsite: data, materiality, landscape, compression ; 7. Fracking Sociality: architecture, real estate and the internet's new urbanism ; Section Three: Platforms ; 8. City-Making in the Age of Platforms ; 9. The Aesthetic Society ; 10. Publics or Post-Publics? Contemporary expression after the mobile Phone