• Purloined Significance: How Recidivism Algorithms Capture, Transform, and Automate our Intersubjective Unconscious as Data

    Updated: 2023-01-29 08:38:38
    : , , Home Search Browse Collections My Account About Digital Commons Network™ Skip to main content Home About Comparative Cultural Studies My CLCWeb Account Home Libraries LIBRARIESPUBLISHING PUPOAJ CLCWeb Vol . 24 2022 Iss . 4 Article Title Purloined Significance : How Recidivism Algorithms Capture , Transform , and Automate our Intersubjective Unconscious as Data Authors Macy McDonald SUNY University at Buffalo Follow Abstract Ever since ProPublica published their groundbreaking analysis of Northpointe†s Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions Core Risk and Needs Assessment software COMPAS in 2016, this web-based decision support system DSS has spawned a wide range of critiques and charges of racial bias . COMPAS provides a full suite of decision support

  • The Social Sinthome

    Updated: 2023-01-29 08:38:15
    Home Search Browse Collections My Account About Digital Commons Network™ Skip to main content Home About Comparative Cultural Studies My CLCWeb Account Home Libraries LIBRARIESPUBLISHING PUPOAJ CLCWeb Vol . 24 2022 Iss . 4 Article Title The Social Sinthome Authors Ryan Engley Pomona College Follow Abstract Much of the critical discourse on social media misidentifies its problematic features as bugs , or problems to solve . Supposed solutions to these problems tend to focus on individual actions . We should delete the apps , own our own data , never click on recommended videos , and realize that we are the product . But if predatory algorithms succeed by individuating people—selling people “choice” and “options” as it harvests user data—then an entire online ecosystem arranged

  • “Love Thy Social Media!”: Hysteria and the Interpassive Subject

    Updated: 2023-01-29 08:37:27
    : Home Search Browse Collections My Account About Digital Commons Network™ Skip to main content Home About Comparative Cultural Studies My CLCWeb Account Home Libraries LIBRARIESPUBLISHING PUPOAJ CLCWeb Vol . 24 2022 Iss . 4 Article Title “Love Thy Social Media ” : Hysteria and the Interpassive Subject Authors Jack Black Sheffield Hallam University Follow Abstract According to the 2020 docudrama , The Social Dilemma our very addiction to “social media” has , today , become encapsulated in the tensions between its facilitation as a mode of interpersonal communication and as an insidious conduit for machine learning , surveillance capitalism and manipulation . Amidst a variety of interviewees – many of whom are former employees of social media companies – the documentary

  • Stalking Oneself: The Fantasmatic Intersubjectivity of Google

    Updated: 2023-01-29 08:37:16
    : Home Search Browse Collections My Account About Digital Commons Network™ Skip to main content Home About Comparative Cultural Studies My CLCWeb Account Home Libraries LIBRARIESPUBLISHING PUPOAJ CLCWeb Vol . 24 2022 Iss . 4 Article Title Stalking Oneself : The Fantasmatic Intersubjectivity of Google Authors Alois Sieben Simon Fraser University Follow Abstract This essay reads fictional and non-fictional accounts of digital stalking as signals of larger changes in intersubjectivity itself caused by Google . Most social media platforms trap users in imaginary relations , in which the other is encountered as a complete profile , but Google allows the searcher to locate an absence in the other in the form of a missing search result . As will be shown in an analysis of two contemporary

  • Lacan and the Algorithm

    Updated: 2023-01-29 08:37:04
    Home Search Browse Collections My Account About Digital Commons Network™ Skip to main content Home About Comparative Cultural Studies My CLCWeb Account Home Libraries LIBRARIESPUBLISHING PUPOAJ CLCWeb Vol . 24 2022 Iss . 4 Article Title Lacan and the Algorithm Authors Clint Burnham Simon Fraser University Follow Abstract Exploring the development of algorithms in Lacanian theory , specifically the R schema in the 1950s , I argue that psychoanalysis , read through contemporary debates about the algorithmic cult of Netflix and other avatars of popular culture , can be said to reveal the inhuman , machinic essence of subjectivity . The etiology of algorithms , mathemes , and other formulae and diagrams in Lacan†s oeuvre has been under-studied , in part because for some readers they are

  • Platform Psychoanalysis: What Does the Algorithm Want?

    Updated: 2023-01-29 08:36:54

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