Beyond Technobohemian and Cybertariat Divide - HYP - KJIG UI

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BEYOND TECHNOBOHEMIAN AND

CYBERTARIAT DIVIDE:

DOUBLE IMPLICATIONS OF NETWORK

LOGIC

Hizkia Yosie Polimpung

[email protected]


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Technology is social before it is technical

Gilles Deleuze


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Structure

Philosophy of control, before and within

network

Materiality of network Implications of network logic

On the concept of (user-)agency

Contemporary IR


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On Technologies of Control

Michel Foucault From Sovereign Society Disciplinary Society

From royal power to pastoral/disciplinary power Power is understood in terms ofadminist rat ion ofbodies& calculat ed management of l if e(Biopolitics)

The right of sovereignty was the right to take life or

let live. And then this new right is established: theright to make live and to let die. (Society Must BeDefended)

Technology of control: Cartography Panopticon


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Gilles Deleuze From Disciplinary Society Societies of control

From disciplinary power to protocol power

Tech of control: Panopticon Diagram (a map thatis co-extensive with the whole social field)

societies of control operate with a third generation ofmachines, with information technology and computers.

Parallalels Adorno & Horkheimer (and Mandel): Late capitalism

as an administered society

Manuel Castellss information age with flexibleaccumulation

Friedrich Kittlers passages from kingdom of sense tokingdom of patterns


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(Galloway, 2004, 27)


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Materiality of network

Computer network

Types:

Centralized network

Decentralized network

Distributed network

(Galloway, 2004)


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Control in network

Protocol

Set of recommendation and rules that outlines

specific technical standards conventional rules that govern:

how specific technologies are agreed to, adopted,

implemented, and ultimately used

the set of possible behavior patterns within aheterogeneous system

Thus, it is a technique for achieving voluntaryregulation within a contingent environemnent.


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Paradox

IP uses an anarchic and highly distributed model,with every device being an equal peer to every otherdevice on the global internet. (Internet Core Protocol:The Definitive Guide, 2000)

IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) vsDNS (Domain Name System)

IP gateway to an anarchic realm DNS focuses control into rigidly defined hierarchy

Maps network addresses to network names (via IPresolutiondomain name conversion to IP address)

Each branch holds absolut e cont rolover everyhtingbelow it

Networked relations has multiple, nested protocols the content of every new protocol is always another

protocol


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Whats wrong with protocol? Its not that protocol is bad, but that protocol is

dangerous

Renders us passive rathern than emancipates us

Homogenizing apparatus

Distributed systems require for their operation ahomogenous standard of interconnectivity (BrandenHookway, 1999)

protological control also affects the functioning ofbodies within social space an the creation of these

bodies into forms ofartificial life that are dividuated,sampled, and coded (Deleuze, 1986)

Dividuation: the opposite of individuation; the dissolvingof individual entity into distributed networks ofinformation.


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Implications

Web 2.0. UGC user generated content

Not concerning the technology, but the logic!

Only social purpose to destroy P2P (or PC2PC) logic ofnetworks

Signifies the birth of participative culture (?)

Participation is not equal to contribution

(strata: active creators, critics, collectors, joiners)

User, in UGC, thus signifies

Collapsing traditional dichotomies

Amateurs vs professionals work as play (AOL)

Volunteers vs employees indirectly delegating staffs job

Anonymous users vs stars/net-celebs self-rating/self-voting


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Cybertariat

New form of labor in information age whichdeprived of: Access to infrastructure

Knowledge of programming language Leads to technology fetishism

New role of user (whatever its stratum) Set of target for advertising agencies

Commodified technobohemians(Bill Lessard & SteveBaldwin, 2000)

a new form of labor (cybertariat; Ursula Huws, 2003) Content provider

Data provider (via metadata; for profiling and indexingof behavior, for statistical purpose, hence for companyprofile; for spamming advertising)


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Network Logic in IR

World Economic Forum 2011 New Reality

Kompleksitas resiko global (NOT global-ized, but peculiarto globalization itself; by-productof globalization)

Mengacaukan prediksi & rationale kebijakan pemerintah Delegitimizing states authority

(e.g. Nouriel Roubini, G-O instead of G-8/G-20)

Clusters of Global Risk1. Macroeconomics imbalances2. Illegal economy

3. Scarcity of energy-food-water trinity

The purpose of this [forum] is not to eliminate risk, but toinspire decision makers to engage collectively to global risk

Klaus Schwab


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WEFs (renewed) Technology of

control

Reinstating legitimacy and power of controls

State Sovereignty

Capitalism Market

Risk Response Network of WEF 2011

Aiming at remedying existing global order

(consisting of state & capitalism)

In short, a (re)new(ed) global order networked globalization


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Counter balance this commotion, were notdroplets in the ocean

MUSE, Unnatural Selection

Terima Kasih

Hizkia Yosie [email protected]

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