Book part: The Paranoid Machine: Five Theses on Digital Cultures
Abstract
In the following article I want to propose the idea of a paranoid machine, in order to reflect on some of today’s developments in digital cultures. Starting from the assumption that we experience a shift from mass media to social media, I will show how paranoia can provide a diagnostic tool to analyze such a transformation. Paranoia as a method helps to shed light on the epistemological, technological, ethical, political, and aesthetical implications of a (post-)digital world. The paranoid machine exposes hidden assumptions in computer code and calls for intervention in the narcissist and homophilic disposition of digital cultures.
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author = {Apprich, Clemens},
title = {The Paranoid Machine: Five Theses on Digital Cultures},
year = 2020,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14850}",
editor = {Burkhardt, Marcus and Shnayien, Mary and Grashöfer, Katja},
address = {Lüneburg},
booktitle = {Explorations in Digital Cultures},
pages = {1--18},
publisher = {meson press},
}
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