Marenko, Betti (2019) Algorithm Magic: Simondon and Techno-animism. In: Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural. Oxford University Press, United Kingdom. ISBN 9780190949983
Type of Research: | Book Section |
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Creators: | Marenko, Betti |
Description: | Drawing on Simondon’s vision of the primitive magical universe - the original harmonious mode of existence of the human in the world - the chapter proposes that a new algorithmic magical and animistic universe is in the making in our contemporary computational world. By framing the immersive experience of computation and its sensibilities, perceptions and affects through Simondon’s magical unity where humans are integral part of a totalizing and harmonious whole, the chapter looks at the black mirrors of our digital screens as the portals into a new magical and animistic reticulation of the human and the nonhuman. This perspective locates the algorithm within a genealogy of the relationship between technology and magic, and reads it as a mysterious form of nonhuman intelligence performing in inscrutable ways. It is the increasing autonomous agency and digital uncertainty of algorithms that engenders a new magical and animistic universe. |
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Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | Digital media, Algorithm, Uncertainty, Techno-animism, Simondon, Computation, Nonhuman |
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: | Oxford University Press |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins |
Date: | 9 October 2019 |
Date Deposited: | 10 May 2019 14:09 |
Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2021 01:38 |
Item ID: | 14198 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/14198 |
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