Talk:Exe0.1 Magda Tyzlik-Carver
Hi Magda,
I have to say and admit i am not so familiar with Foucault idea of subjectivation and individuation. But the piece seems make sense to me as it uses content curating as a way to think about execution, in particular biopolitical execution.
However, I have some questions would like to follow:
How do technologies of production are implicitly part of content curating? Why it is implicit? Because from what you have stated in content curating is all about technology - manage data and digital objects as you mentioned. I feel a bit sudden when it comes to implicity, perhaps need a few lines to explain your thoughts?
In relation to biopolitics by Foucault, he also mentions about managing death. How do you see content curating manage death?
I am not clear about what is data bodies or body of data? When you discuss about big data, in which subjectivation and individuation take place and are performed through bodies, are you referring to human actions? Is that you would like to think about data as something can be experienced and hence, lead to the performativity of the self?
In relation to the affective data as the concluding remark, it would be great to link the affective data with subjectivation and individuation, further strengthen how these could be performed? In particular the processes and tensions that you have mentioned?
--Winnie S (talk) 15:04, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Dear Magda,
Thanks for an interesting text! I really enjoyed Foucault's ideas of individuation and subjectivation, but I found it hard to grasp the difference and relation of these in the process of content curating. As I see it you mostly address the individuation aspect, but not the subjectivation? How are they different, and what is then the relation between these and the user, curators, and technology?
Some other aspects:
It seems to me that the 'positive' biopolitics (Blencowe), introduced in the introduction is left out in the rest of the article, which I think is a shame, since it might bring something new to the discussion.
The link between 'to curate' and 'to cure' was really great, and I would like to hear more about this.
In the end you mention 'affective data' which I also find very great in relation to subjectivation, and as I see it affective data is not only linked to content curating, but also to practices of self-tracking etc, which indeed points to the disciplined self. In some ways I see relations between Blencowe's concept of biopolitic execution and affective data, which you could address in greater details.
Looking forward to meeting you! - Marie Louise
As a whole I feel the subject of content curation is very pertinent and the notion of the so called technical neutrality (or objectivity) that surrounds is important to demystify. My main issue with the text is lack of contextualisation (because it is from your thesis, and needs adjustement to work as a standalone text).
In the beginning, I feel that it would be useful to define up front the main actors and terms. I had the following questions and remarks as I was reading:
content curation : do you mean as an aggregator? or a curator? subjectivation: of the artist? or the art, the curator? not sure what exactly here. "the function of curating content" - would this be the algorithm's function for example?
link biopolitics and content curation is not clear in my opinion. i understand the link but it should be made explicit in the text.
internet-born practice: introduced without explanation
super interesting point > filter guru > deification (data and life management through care, cure, etc.) link content curator and filter bubble? this could be mentioned in addition
"Big data is an expression of exponential growth and availability of qualified and unstructured data." can you explain how big data is both qualified and unstructured? these two seem mutually exclusive to me. if this point refers to the predetermined qualification through the tools affordances so to speak, this would be a very interesting point to develop. the illusion of 'raw' data...
sideways: i keep thinking of Don Norman's Emotional Design ("The Design of Everyday Things") - and the ideology (see propaganda) of smart design through the consideration (care) of the user's emotion -- i wonder what are the implications of affect data coupled with so called smart objects?
lastly, in relation to Chun's use of the notion of care, how do you see content curation's cure/care? could these seeminlgy radically different uses of the term hold something? -- Audrey