Paranoia and Network Collectivity

Discuss the concept of paranoia, whether it is particular to our current media culture and to the loss of a symbolic order, and how digital forms of world-making can help us to fill the gap caused by this loss. Discuss how the standardization of protocols and programs counters the fragmentation of collectivity, working upon our collective attention below our symbolic capacities, and investigating the role of new attentional forms in the constitution of data and networked publics. Discuss how some critics of today’s network culture move beyond symbolically defined collectivity altogether, and towards a thinking of networks as elemental and heterogenous preconditions for human collectivity to emerge.      

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