{"id":7306,"date":"2018-09-04T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T10:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/?post_type=article&p=7306"},"modified":"2018-09-06T22:24:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T22:24:44","slug":"the-user-unconscious-on-affect-media-and-measure","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/article\/the-user-unconscious-on-affect-media-and-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"The User Unconscious: On Affect, Media, and Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book Announcement by Patricia Ticineto Clough<\/strong> (USA)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My book,\u00a0The User Unconscious: On Affect, Media, and Measure,\u00a0<\/em>has been published by the University of Minnesota Press (2018).\u00a0 The book explores\u00a0how\u00a0using the internet and social media as well as the operation of tracking and sensing devices produce data beyond human consciousness and perception and therefore call for us to reconsider the meaning and function of the unconscious. The book also includes experimental writings interweaving unconscious processes and critical theory in the age of datafication.<\/p>\n

The User Unconscious: On Affect, Media and Measure\u00a0<\/em>extends my work begun in\u00a0Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Technology\u00a0<\/em>(University of Minnesota Press, 2000) to address the affects of so-called big data on unconscious processes, the body, subjectivity, and\u00a0sociality.\u00a0 The book draws on works of media scholars, philosophers, and psychoanalysts to describe the operation of\u00a0digital media and the algorithms that generate and distribute data mined from our use of the internet and social media as well as the environmental data from\u00a0tracking and sensing devices \u2013 that is, the data of nonhuman agencies. These agencies operate in ways that go beyond human consciousness and perception, creating what is called \u201cthe trauma of code\u201d: an experience of\u00a0 “the too-muchness” of data, or, more correctly, what can never ever be experienced directly but which nonetheless affects us.<\/p>\n

The User Unconscious\u00a0<\/em>proposes that this experience that cannot ever be experienced is producing\u00a0an \u201cI\u201d\u00a0composited\u00a0with its data traces and environmental data beyond consciousness and perception,\u00a0extending the body beyond the organism and allowing for\u00a0bodily sensibilities that are human and other-than-human. This “I” is set in the\u00a0changes wrought partly by big data in governance (especially preventive policing), economy (especially\u00a0financialization), and\u00a0sociality\u00a0(especially the prominence of social media), raising questions of race, gender, sexuality, age, and ability. Drawing on psychoanalytic theories of trauma and the nonhuman,\u00a0The User Unconscious\u00a0<\/em>asks psychoanalysts to undertake further exploration of unconscious processes in this age of big data.<\/p>\n

Link to publisher:\u00a0 <\/strong>https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/the-user-unconscious<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Patricia Ticineto Clough, PhD
\n<\/strong>Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies,
\nCity University of New York
\nPsychoanalyst, practicing in New York City
\nMember of the Training Committee of Institute for
\nContemporary Psychotherapy<\/p>\n

140 Riverside Drive 8N
\nNew York, NY 10024\u00a0\u00a0 USA
\n<\/u>Email Patricia Ticineto Clough<\/a><\/p>\n

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