Abstract
Technological mediation of capital produces spatial practices that are the new terrain of contestation. The infiltration of neoliberal ideology into these spaces for control over bodies sets the resistance in motion. Techno-capital produces new opportunities but is also the agent of power and control against which Franklin argues to enforce limits in the practice of justice, as the exclusionary practice of technology creates a different division of labor through control and compliance. The new technology-based business models like UberEats do not render personal growth for the marginal bodies but ensure capital accumulation. This is within the realm of new media of visual screens, converging media, internet, GPS, mobile app-based business techniques, etc. These techno-capitals are changing our relations to production and social communication, where the delegation of duties is transformed first into an app, then to an intermediary, and subsequently to a motor vehicle, to roads and highways, to the communications network and thus binding people to non-humans. Unlike in a fiction where we can be here and elsewhere, be ourselves and someone else, in a delegation, a long lost action of an actor remains active today: “I live in the midst of technical delegates; I am folded into nonhumans” (Latour 189). Hence, the shifting of delegation through the app moves further away from the body, from the real to the online, toward a vanishing existence. Even though, it remains active as a traceable subject within the app like a moving dot—within the realm of the visual.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2021 Special Focus—The Data Galaxy: The Un-Making of Typographic Man?
KEYWORDS
TECHNOLOGY, INTERNET, DATA, CAPITAL, NEOLIBERALISM, MARGIN, POWER, VIRTUAL, GIG ECONOMY
