Papers by erika biddle
MediaTropes, 2013
This article investigates new forms of social control and the transformation of subjectivities ma... more This article investigates new forms of social control and the transformation of subjectivities made manifest in technological advances in networked media and human-computer interaction (HCI). A selection of contemporary social media platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, and online porn, are used to examine how modes of performativity and participation on the Internet are put to work as evolving forms of networked control. In particular, the paper examines how haptic forms of connecting with others online co-evolve with the Internet's capacity to control at a distance.
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Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2013
Since making its presence felt in September 2011, the Occupy movement has drawn upon aesthetic-af... more Since making its presence felt in September 2011, the Occupy movement has drawn upon aesthetic-affective techniques and cooperative structures developed in socially engaged art practices from the mid-twentieth century onwards—such as Joseph Beuys' notion of “social sculpture”—as resources for producing new social compositions. These practices extend the concept of art into a social plastic form that reshapes and re-forms our subjectivities, the way we communicate, our social structures and by extension, the world we inhabit. At the same time, before the mass evictions of Occupy took place across North America, the movement placed a heavy emphasis on visibility and space. Its short-term strategies and successes were largely owed to the seizing of a particularly opportune moment in a highly visible space that provided a symbolic frame for “Occupy Wall Street as event.” This paper explores the possibility that the eviction of Occupy from its encampments was not the disaster bemoaned by many of its participants—or the failure celebrated by its detractors—but a renewed opportunity for social composition.
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Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations//Collective Theorization Edited by Stevphen Shuk... more Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations//Collective Theorization Edited by Stevphen Shukaitis+ David Graeber ISBN 978-1-904859-35-2 Library of Congress Number: 2006924199 © 2007 Stevphen Shukaitis+ David Graeber This edition© 2007 AK Press For more information ...
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Aporia: The Nursing Journal
Although much research has been dedicated to describing the ethical and communicative conditions ... more Although much research has been dedicated to describing the ethical and communicative conditions of the encounter between a health care professional and a patient, in fact we know very little of the encounter itself, nor of the concept of the identity of the subjects they implicitly fall ...
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Since 1963, artists Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins have attempted to realize a body made immor... more Since 1963, artists Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins have attempted to realize a body made immortal by reskilling its habitual experience of architecture. Their project to "reverse destiny" entails the affective recompositioning of social forms via cognitive, sentient, perceptual and proprioceptive crosstraining exercises conjoining the body and architecture. They have garnered accolades from artists, critics and theorists drawn by their ambition to transform the habits that take life away from life. This paper argues that much of the attraction to their project is on the level of language and not practice. While their rhetoric promises new avenues of freedom, their production remains bound to the object and the synthetic nuclear family home. Contrary to the view that Arakawa and Gins' work is playful and horizontalist, underlying this veneer of play is a politics of force, of carving their ideal into the body through the spectacular imposition of architecture on habit.
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Everyone is an artist. This would seem a simple enough place to begin; with a statement connectin... more Everyone is an artist. This would seem a simple enough place to begin; with a statement connecting directly to Joseph Beuys, and more generally to the historic avant-garde’s aesthetic politics aiming to break down barriers between artistic production and everyday life. It invokes an artistic politics that runs through Dada to the Situationists, and meanders and dérives through various rivulets in the history of radical politics and social movement organizing. But let’s pause for a second. While seemingly simple, there is much more to this one statement than presents itself. It is a statement that contains within it two notions of time and the potentials of artistic and cultural production, albeit notions that are often conflated, mixed, or confused. By Figure 1: Joseph Beuys teasing out these two notions and creatively recombining them, perhaps there might be something to be gained in rethinking the antagonistic and movement-building
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For researchers working within a critique of capitalism and its relation to knowledge product... more For researchers working within a critique of capitalism and its relation to knowledge production, it is problematic to use traditional research methodologies endemic to the very system being critiqued unless they are somehow altered. This article investigates the potential of schizoanalysis to provide conceptual tools for such an approach. Developed through the collaborative work of Deleuze and Guattari, schizoanalysis operates from the organic principle that knowledge is an indivisible part of the way we live in the world. However, schizoanalysis is not a research methodology; it inserts itself into research methodologies, warpsthem, and reproduces itself through them.
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For researchers working within a critique of capitalism and its relation to knowledge production,... more For researchers working within a critique of capitalism and its relation to knowledge production, it is problematic to use traditional research methodologies endemic to the very system being critiqued unless they are somehow altered. This article investigates the potential of schizoanalysis to provide conceptual tools for such an approach. Developed through the collaborative work of Deleuze and Guattari, schizoanalysis operates from the organic principle that knowledge is an indivisible part of the way we live in the world. However, schizoanalysis is not a research methodology; it inserts itself into research methodologies, warps them, and reproduces itself through them.
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