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).

Deleuze and New Technology - Edited By David Savat and Mark Poster - Edinburgh University Press, Uk, June 2009

Deleuze and New Technology

Edited By: David Savat and Mark Poster Publication Date: Jun 2009 Explores how Deleuze's philosophy can help us to understand our digital and biotechnological futures. In a world where our lives are increasingly mediated by technologies, we need to pay more attention to Deleuze's often explicit focus on our reliance on the machine and the technological. These essays are a collective and determined effort to explore the usefulness Deleuze in thinking about our present and future reliance on technology. At the same time, they take seriously a style of thinking that negotiates between philosophy, science and art. Contributors William Bogard, Abigail Bray, Ian Buchanan, Verena Conley, Ian Cook, Tauel Harper, Timothy Murray, Saul Newman, Patricia Pisters, Mark Poster, Horst Ruthrof, David Savat, Bent Meier Sorensen and Eugene Thacker. Introduction, David Savat; Control; 1. Deleuze and Machines: A Politics of Technology?, William Bogard; 2. Of Rhizomes, Smooth Space, War Machines and New Media, Verena Conley; 3. Deleuze's Objectile: From Discipline to Modulation, David Savat; 4. How to Surf: Technologies at Work in the Societies of Control. Bent Meier Sorensen; 5. Chemical-Control: From the Cane to the Pill, Abigail Bray; 6. Politics in the Age of Control, Saul Newman; Becoming 7. Smash the Strata! A Program for Techno-Political Evolution, Tauel Harper; 8. Deleuze and the Internet, Ian Buchanan; 9. Swarming: Number vs. Animal?, Eugene Thacker; 10. The Body without Organs and Internet Gaming Addiction, Ian Cook; 11. Deleuze's Concept in the Information-Control Continuum, Horst Ruthrof; 12. Illusionary Perception and Cinema: Experimental Thoughts on Film Theory and Neuroscience, Patricia Pisters; 13. Surface Folds: The Archival Events of New Medialised Art, Tim Murray; Afterword, Mark Poster; Notes on Contributors; Index Dr David Savat is Chair of Communication Studies at the University of Western Australia. Mark Poster is Professor of History and a member of the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Deleuze Connections Series Editor: Ian Buchanan 'It is not the elements or the sets which define the multiplicity. What defines it is the AND, as something which has its place between the elements or between the sets. AND, AND, AND – stammering.' – Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues This is the original groundbreaking series of Deleuze-inspired books that has already placed Deleuze's thought in connection with feminist theory, music, space, geography, queer theory, performance, postcolonial studies, contemporary art, and is constantly opening new frontiers in Deleuze Studies. Read more on EUP website