Data Love

Simanowski, Roberto

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“…Today, everything from media choice, eating disorders and traffic flow problems to issues of democratic engagement, juvenile reoffending patterns, food distribution in the developing world and climate change seems to be a problem solvable by more and more data collection and interpretation (Betancourt, 2015; Morozov, 2013). The enchanted excitement with which Big Data, that is excess of data, has been welcomed by a new band of data-management gurus stems from the immense hopes that are created by engaging in excessive data creation (Beer, 2016; Mayer-Schönberger & Cukier, 2013; Simanowski, 2016, pp. 25–8).…”

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Sacred Excess: Organizational Ignorance in an Age of Toxic Data

Schwarzkopf

2019

Organization Studies

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Actors in data-intensive industries at times deliberately induce and reproduce organizational ignorance by engaging in over-production of data. This observation leads the paper to make two claims. First, members of these industries fetishize data excess not in order to reduce, but in order to reproduce and stabilize organizational ignorance. Second, in this process of fetishization, organizational ignorance gives rise to forms of collective effervescence similar to that found in totemistic religions. This effervescence allows organizational actors to draw defining lines around that which is marked as awe-inspiring, dangerous and off-limits, namely the sacred. In reviewing organizational ignorance from the perspective of the sacred, this paper proposes that, paradoxically, contemporary forms of data creation allow companies and industries to organize themselves around ignorance as opposed to the promise of knowledge and insight. The paper uses this theoretical proposal in order to outline the contours of an alternative ontology of organizational ignorance, one that understands this phenomenon in terms of excessive presence of data and information.

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Sacred Excess: Organizational Ignorance in an Age of Toxic Data

Schwarzkopf

2019

Organization Studies

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“…Dallas, 2015; Huggett, 2015a; Huvila and Huggett, 2018), but also in digital culture itself. As Roberto Simanowski (2016) points out in his book on the seduction and betrayal of digital technologies, the general absence of a coherent theory in digital studies is striking. Digital technologies are mostly concerned with methods and skills, and this approach has led some to accuse digital archaeology “of being technocratic, apolitical and indifferent to social and cultural concerns and of relating poorly with ‘theoretical orientations currently found in archaeology,’ giving rise to an ‘anxiety discourse’ that considers it ‘under-theorised’ and casts doubts on the value of its broader theoretical import” (Dallas, 2015: 177–178).…”

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Towards a Prosthetic Archaeology

Stobiecka

2020

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Prosthetic archaeology is a theoretical proposal for a materially oriented digital practice. It is based on a critical approach to implementing the latest technologies in archaeology. Drawing from the philosophy of technology and prosthetic studies, this project offers a more critical and meaningful understanding of digital methods in archaeology. The main interpretative figure is the verb “to prostheticize.” Thus, prosthetic archaeology is not solely about prostheses — technological improvements understood as supplements. Rather, it is about the processes of “prostheticizing” archaeology, brought on by the digital turn in “the discipline of things.” A verbal understanding of this main category and its processual potential allows for a technological prosthesis to function as an active addition that does, makes, transforms, refers, evokes, (re)constructs, and generates meanings. The concept of prosthetic archaeology is illustrated with a discussion of the “Body Can’t Wait” advertising campaign organized in Paris, March 2018, where ancient and neoclassical sculptures were equipped with 3D-printed artificial limbs. Inspired by an advertising campaign that uses technology to raise social awareness and engage in current global problems, prosthetic archaeology may offer a prefigurative blueprint for a future, radical archaeology.

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Crime and Detection in a Virtually Mobile World: Tom Hillenbrand’s Drohnenland

Henderson

2020

Transnational Crime Fiction

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Data Love

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Sacred Excess: Organizational Ignorance in an Age of Toxic Data

Sacred Excess: Organizational Ignorance in an Age of Toxic Data

Towards a Prosthetic Archaeology

Crime and Detection in a Virtually Mobile World: Tom Hillenbrand’s Drohnenland

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