Let’s begin with some examples that will update aspects of Virilio’s argument in The Information Bomb. 1. “The Reality Mining Dataset: The Reality Mining project represents the largest mobile phone experiment ever attempted in academia. We are collecting an unprecedented amount of data on human behavior and group interactions that we plan on anonymizing and [...]
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Digital Marketing as Generalized Snooping: On Virilio’s Information Bomb
Posted: November 28, 2010 in biopower, capitalism, Diagramming Affective Ethics, Ecology of Sensation, marketingTags: affect, assemblage, attention, biopower, body, cell phones, habit, information, New Media, ontology, panopticism, Reality Mining, Virilio
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Deleuze on Affect, Guattari on Virtual Ecologies
Posted: November 23, 2010 in Deleuze, Diagramming Affective Ethics, Ecology of SensationTags: affect, assemblage, Becoming, Bergson, body, Delanda, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, evolution, Felix, Guattari, ontology, phase space, self-organization
Throughout these blog entries I have continued to specify, define, differentiate, complexify, and diagram Gilles Deleuze’s conception of affect. Here is a further attempt, this one taken from Deleuze’s fine book Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, Robert Hurley, trans. (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1988) 48-51. Deleuze makes some crucial distinctions in the definition of “Affections, Affects” [...]
Deleuze and Foucault on Marketing as Control
Posted: November 2, 2010 in Deleuze, marketingTags: affect, Amit S. Rai, assemblage, biopower, Foucault, habit, intensity, New Media, ontology, technology, value added
Gilles Deleuze never to my knowledge wrote extensively on marketing, but he had some choice words for it in “Postscript on Societies of Control.” I quote them below. I lectured today, minutes ago actually, on Foucault’s panopticism and Deleuze’s modulated control to my first year marketing and communication course at QMUL. I tried to make [...]
