Revisiting the Concept of the Edited Collection: Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

Peters, Michael A.; Jandrić, Petar; Hayes, Sarah

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“…Soon after, Michael, Sarah, and I published a series of four articles in and around biodigitalism and postdigitalism (Peters et al 2021a , b , c , d ). I felt that we were on to something bigger than a few articles, so I suggested that we should co-edit a dedicated book.…”

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“…This discourse fails to recognise the complex and hybrid interrelations between humans as they work with, and encounter, the digital in their lives (see Jandrić et al 2018 ). But this idea of biodigital was new to me, and I was not aware of it until invited to work with Michael and Petar on the four articles (Peters et al 2021a , b , c , d ) that ended up as chapters in Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (Peters et al 2022 ). As we experienced the pandemic sweeping through our different contexts, it revealed so many things to us, and at a pace.…”

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“…Over the years, we talked a lot about the role of postdigital intellectuals within the development of different critical utopias (Ford and Jandrić 2019 ; Jandrić and McLaren 2021 ; Peters et al 2021a , b , c , d , e ). But if you go back in time, for instance to the Second World War and the Manhattan Project aimed at development of nuclear weapons, you will see that in 1943, the world’s best physicists blew up a small atomic reactor not more than a few kilometres from the small town where their families lived.…”

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“…So the concept of ‘knowledge ecologies’ that suggests that disciplinary boundaries are no longer firm or distinct, but fluid, seems key. Many of the publishing experiments and collective writing projects led by Michael and Petar are revealing the convergence driven by new biodigital technologies that can in turn ‘change the structure, substance and research methodologies of the fields in question’ (Peters et al 2021d ). If we are noticing the convergence of disciplines, and how this alters our perspectives on research and teaching, I wonder ‘how much some of our policies, as static texts not in dynamic and active use, remain grounded in the structure, but fail to travel to effect change across the infrastructure’ (Hayes 2021 ).…”

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“…Often edited collections are books that are compiled from isolated, independent chapters, routinely brought together by editors through a summary of contents. They can thus become little more than a vehicle of ‘standardised production, within our neoliberal political economy’ (Peters et al 2021 ). Those who contribute are frequently all from academic institutions, and such volumes may then lack the insights that local businesses, charities, councils, creative agencies, coalitions, or other individuals and regional groups might offer.…”

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In our forthcoming Springer book, 1 what we think of as 'data', and what it means for each of us to be recorded by it, to generate it and to interact with it, is shown to be a crucial part of any cross-sector debate concerning digital inclusion. This is particularly important too given the intimate relations that data-driven technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), algorithmic culture, facial recognition systems (Ada Lovelace Institute 2019), and wearable technologies have now assumed in our lives and learning, either with or without, our consent. Whether this concerns software code, data analytics, social media interactions, or other infrastructures involving data of some sort, these have 'become inseparable from policy processes and modes of governance' (Williamson 2019(Williamson , 2020. During the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns of 2020/2021, much additional online activity, tracking systems and applications, have added extra complexity too. In many policies though, facts and figures concerning matters of digital inclusion may be referred to as data, but they do not illuminate the complex forms that data now takes. Nor do they address the diverse and unequal ways in which people have capacity to interact with, or understand their relations with, data.Having identified these issues, there is no quick remedy for one group of scholars, digital entrepreneurs, charitable agencies, or policy makers to address them alone. Research into the automation of digital poverty management has already demonstrated frightening, life threatening impacts for the vulnerable, from algorithmic decisions in data-driven eligibility systems and predictive models, to poor privacy and data security, or infringement of rights via surveillance (Eubanks 2018: 11). The 'digital poorhouse' described by Eubanks refers to the automation of decision making about access to services for the disadvantaged in society, where shared social decisions instead become 'systems engineering problems' (Eubanks 2018: 12). Yet even in discussing powerful analogies between public assistance programmes that have moved 'from poorhouse to database' (Eubanks 2018: 14), the emphasis is on how data gathered on people's circumstances is being managed. How each of us are managing data ourselves, to interact with it in every shape and form, remains under-explored.The relatively new field of Human-Data Interaction (HDI) was proposed in order to 'open up a dialogue amongst interested parties in the personal and big data ecosystems' (Mortier et al. 2014). Intended to offer a framework for more meaningful relationships with data, it was designed by these authors primarily to guide the practices of those who are developing data-intensive systems. Comprising of three

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Revisiting the Concept of the Edited Collection: Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

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