Never Alone, Except for Now: Art, Networks, Populations,Used

Never Alone, Except for Now: Art, Networks, Populations,Used

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How is it that one can be connected to a vast worldwide network of other people and places via digital technologies and yet also be completely alone? Kris Cohen tackles this philosophical question in Never Alone, Except for Now by exploring how contemporary technologies are changing group formations and affiliations within social life. He identifies a new form of collectivity that exists between publics, which are built through conscious acts, and populations, which are automatically constructed through the collection of Big Data. Finding traditional liberal concepts of the public sphere and neoliberal ideas of populations inadequate on their own to examine these new forms of sociality, Cohen places familiar features of the websuch as emoticons, trolling, and search enginesin conversation with artworks by Felix GonzalezTorres, William Gibson, Sharon Hayes, and Thomson & Craighead to more precisely articulate the affective and aesthetic experiences of living between publics and populations. This liminal experiencecaught between existing as a set of data points and as individuals newly empowered to create their own online communitiesexplains, Cohen contends, how one is simultaneously alone and connected in ways never before possible.

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