Archive for the ‘Organized Networks’ Category

Are you with the Occupation?

Posted: October 16, 2011 in Becoming, biopower, Brain, capitalism, Chaplin, Clinamen, Diagramming Affective Ethics, Ecology of Sensation, ethics, marketing ethics, Method, Neuroscience, New Media, Organized Networks, Perception, Precarity, Time, Value, value added, value capture
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What is the nature of a connection? I have been influenced by Franco Berardi (Bifo) recently. He points out that definitions have to be approached through multiple strategies because what is important is shocking thought by the reconstitution of a virtual field of sense and sensation. In other words, part of what is at stake [...]

Biopower and Marketing

Posted: September 4, 2010 in Becoming, Bergson, biopower, Deleuze, dialectic, Ecology of Sensation, ethics, Freedom, marketing, marketing ethics, Method, Mobile Phones, Nietzsche, Organized Networks, social viscosity, Swarms, Time, Value, value added, value capture
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“Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, capturing [added by the authors], communicating and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders.” Dhruv Grewal and Michael Levy, Marketing (London: McGraw-Hill, 2008) i Let us begin with a refrain developed in [...]

The Value of Affect: Perception and Media in India today

Posted: May 31, 2010 in Becoming, Benjamin, Bergson, Bollywood, Causality, Cinema, Clinamen, Deleuze, dialectic, Ecology of Sensation, Experiments with vision, India, Method, Mobile Phones, New Media, Nietzsche, Organized Networks, Perception, Photography, Photography of India, Public Sphere, Time, Zen
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reticulation 9.6 copy Abstract: This essay aims to diagram the set of connectivities (or “system of relations”) developing in business outsourcing affective, communicative labor and the value-adding digital image in contemporary Hindi-Urdu cinema. What emerges is a resonant set of nested temporalities constituting a new media assemblage. Throughout, I draw on a set of analyses [...]

Distributed Networks: On Security, Terror, Mobility and Other Sensations

Posted: April 19, 2010 in Becoming, Bergson, Clinamen, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, India, Method, Mobile Phones, New Media, Organized Networks, Perception, Probabilistic chips, social viscosity, Swarms
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This lecture is based on research conducted in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai on mobile phone cultures over the past nine months. This research has focused on changing patterns of use emerging from shifts in relations of power between government, network providers, content producers, value added companies, and communities of active users across urban and rural space. [...]

On Social Viscosities: diagramming the flows of mobile media in India

Posted: February 19, 2010 in Causality, Clinamen, Deleuze, dialectic, Ecology of Sensation, India, Method, Organized Networks, Precarity, ressentiment, social viscosity
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Sensation and its ecologies get us beyond the pleasure-agency / consumption-docility binary that characterizes radical political thought today. This is simply because sensation is not the synthesis of the dialectic, it is not involved ontologically in dialectics at all. Sensation involves the creative mixing of the virtual and the actual. Deleuze writes, “sensation has no [...]