David Savat: The Uncoding the Digital Technology, Subjectivity and Action in the Control Society - Palgrave Macmillan, Uk, 2013

Examining the impact of digital media on surveillance, power and people's capacity for action, this book explores how people act, and are acted upon, in an increasingly connected world.

Digital media are having an enormous impact on the world. From the seemingly mundane, like playing World of Warcraft, to posting a message on Twitter or Facebook, to the operation of financial markets, to transformations in science and the economy - digital media continue to revolutionize how people live their daily life. This book challenges how we understand our relationship with our digital machines, and shows how they open up a new capacity for action in the world. A capacity for action that we should no longer simply think of in terms of movement and force, but also in terms of flow and viscosity. A capacity for action that produces a politics of fluids, and finds its expression not only in new forms of social control, but also in a renewed ability for people to engage with the world and each other.


Tables of contents:

Introduction
PART I: THE DATABASE
The Emergence of Modulation
Dividuality
PART II: THE INTERFACE
The Human-machine Assemblage
Mechanical Being
Digital Being
PART III: THE NETWORK
Solid Politics
Fluid Politics
The Boundary Layer
Conclusion 

DAVID SAVAT is a lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of Western Australia. He is executive editor of the journal Deleuze Studies, and co-editor with Mark Poster of the collection Deleuze and New Technology (2009).