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activism, 15, 143, 146, 220n84
Addresses to the German Nation (Fichte), 122
Adorno, Theodor W., 18, 19–20, 155, 175n28
advertising, 10, 16, 20, 40, 56, 140, 176n30
aesthetics, 56, 80, 148, 222n94
affective capitalism, 202n53
affective-computing, xv, 169n8
Agamben, Georgio, xiv, 22, 24, 49, 60, 64, 169n7, 176n3, 214n61
agency, 200n50, 201n51, 202n53
aggression, nationalism and, 135
Alexa, 157
Alexander, Matthias, 221n86
algorithm, xvi, 2, 8, 16–18, 70–71, 78, 83, 88–89, 153–55, 171n12, 193n24, 200n50, 201n51, 225n3
Alone Together (Turkle), 137
ambient attention, ix
ambient awareness, 217n75
ambient intimacy, 3
Anderson, Benedict, 39
apps, 24, 73–74, 78, 82, 89, 113, 195n34, 220n84
Arcades Project (Benjamin), 47
archiving: democratization of, 117; email, 209n35; experts and, 117; of Facebook, 64; formats, 114–15; history and, 113; internet and, 111, 114; mania and, 112; memory and, 112, 209n35; narrative and, 110; photography and, 110–11; recording and, 209n35; self, 113–14; storytelling and, 110; technology, 209n35; websites and, 113
Arrington, Michael, 175n29
art, community-based, 222n94
artificial intelligence, 76, 155, 156
Assmann, Aleida, 170n7
attentional economy, 11, 26, 61, 65, 168n5
attention deficit disorder, 95
autobiography, xvi, 163, 190n15; algorithm and, 201n51; automatic, 161; Facebook and, 88, 200n50; identity and, 88; narrative and, 62; photography and, 56, 72; postmodernity and, 88–89; self-discovery and, 67; social media and, 56
automatic recording, 75
automation, 46, 61, 64, 76, 153, 188n4
Balász, Béla, 45
banality, 27, 128, 141, 205n9, 214n54, 220n82
barbarism, 152–53
Barthes, Roland, 27
Bataille, Georges, 216n73, 217n76
Bateson, Gregory, 214n60
Baudrillard, Jean, 44–45, 60, 94
Bauman, Zygmunt, 34, 35, 36, 68–69, 182n62
being, 83–85, 139, 144, 146, 216nn73–74, 221n88
Being and Time (Heidegger), 49, 85
Being Singular Plural (Nancy), 93, 137, 216n74
belief, 37, 123, 126, 127, 144, 146, 164
belonging, 77, 134, 164, 215n66, 218n
Benedict (Pope), 180n46
Benjamin, Walter, 25, 46–49, 72, 152, 155–56, 177nn36–37, 186n85, 186nn89–90, 204n8, 224n2
Berlin, Isaiah, 100–101, 107, 205n11
bias, narrative and, 153
biopolitics, 16
“Birth of a Digital Nation” (Wired), 131
Black Mirror, 75
Borges, Jorge Luis, 111
browsers, 100–101, 107, 205n11
browsing history, 115
Büchner, Georg, 37
Buddemeier, Heinz, 171n14
“Building a Global Community” (Zuckerberg), 163–66
bundle theory, 199n48
busyness, 25, 26, 30, 178n42, 205n9
Caeiro, Alberto, 41, 42, 51, 184n71
camera, 21–24, 45–46, 72, 159. See also photography
Candy Crush, viii
capitalism, 15, 41, 138, 202n53, 205n9
carelessness, 95
Carroll, Lewis, 111
cause-and-effect, 57–58, 188n7, 194n28
Chan, Priscilla, 167n3
chats, internet, 216n71
chatter, conversations and, 93, 136, 216n74
children, language and, 184n70
China, 101
Christian era, x
Circle, The (Eggers), 173n21
Cistercian order, 134–35
civil society movements, 176n30
close reading, 225n3
cognitive competencies, 63
cognitive unconscious, 202n53
coherence, 56, 86, 87, 91, 92, 98, 99, 119, 120, 153, 158
collective meaning, 110
collective memory, 98–99, 108, 116–19, 124, 208nn27–28, 210n38
collective narrative, 124, 153
commercial domination, 16
commercialization, xii, 20, 41
commitment, 142, 144, 180n46, 213n54, 220n85
commodification, 41
communication, 131; advertisements and, 10; automation and, 153; busyness and, 26; capitalism and, 205n9; commercialization of, 20; community of, 38, 39; compulsion of, xiv; digital, 70; disability and, 9; dis-membering and, 134, 142, 215n70, 216n71; ecstasy of, 136–37, 217n76; exchange and, 40; experience and, 76; through Facebook, xii, 147, 152, 165–66; as flight from now, 21–41; ground of, 137; hyperlinks and context of, 100; information and, 216n74; interactive, 3; language and, xiv–xv; of lived experience, 134; mathematized, 17, 174n27; money and, 196n36; narcissism and, 8; narrative and, 69; networked, 17; phatic, 40, 42, 51, 98, 135, 140, 146–48, 151, 184n70, 198n44; photography and, 26, 35, 50, 60, 178n40; privacy and, 111; reduction of, 18; reflection and, 141; sharing and, 216n74; social networks and, 112, 184n70; spontaneous, 55; superficial, xvi; technology and, vii, 75; with thoughts, 75; utopia, 184n70; visual, 76
communicative deception (Verblendung), 141
communion, intimacy of, 136
community, 157, 216n74; alienation and, 40; based art, 222n94; belonging and, 218n77; without commonality, 38; of communication, 38, 39; differences in, 144; Facebook, xiii, 39, 133, 168n6; feeling of, 38; foundation of, 144, 221n88; of friends, 39; global, 163–66, 170n9; groundless, 131–49, 163, 164; identity and, 131, 218n77; imagined, 39; internet, 131–32; like-minded, 8; memory and, 142; technology and, 132–33, 138, 214n65; virtual, 133, 215n66
concealment, humans and, 76
conscious control, self-representation as, 13–21
consciousness, 45–46, 82–83, 152, 154, 199n48
consumption/consumerism, x, 15, 37, 38, 127, 140, 148
contemplation, 29, 32, 86, 180n46, 204n8
contemporaneousness, xiv–xvi, 169n7
conversations, 70, 93, 136, 159, 216n74
cookies, 115–16
cool persona, 49
copy-and-paste, 106
corporate leadership, of Facebook, xiii
cosmopolitanism, 103, 121, 127–31, 147–48, 206n18, 211n41, 213n56, 214n54, 222nn91–92
Coupland, Douglas, 92
critical theory, x–xi, 20, 42, 140–41, 175n28
Cronenberg, David, 216n71
crowdsourcing, 174n26
cryptography, 176n30
cultural change, 83
cultural differences, 134
cultural logic, of modernity, 82
cultural memory (kulturelles Gedächtnis), xv, 114, 208n27
cultural recollection (kulturelle Erinnerung), 208n27
cultural revolutions, xii
cultural theory, 21
cultural values, 132
culture: binary and, 120; bourgeois, 14; collective memory and, 124; concept of, 211n41; decline of, vii; environment and, 138; of forgetting, 211n41; identity and, 98, 120–21, 122, 125–26, 215n68; industry, 18–19, 20; meaning, 41–42, 51, 184n72; of memory, 112; narrative and, 99, 145; participation, 49, 224n94; presence, 42, 43, 167n3; protest, 220n84; sharing, 148
Culture of Surveillance, The: Discipline and Social Control in the United States (Staples), 174n25
cybernetic governmentality, 18, 174n27
cybernetics, 20–21, 38, 155, 156–57, 225n5
cybernetic subjectivity, 139, 219n79
Dadaism, digital, 196n36
daily narrative, 120
Danton’s Death (Büchner), 37
data: acquisition of Facebook, 56; analysis, 154; Big Data, 71, 153; circulation, 16; collection, 16, 91; databases, 70–83, 108, 191n18; dataism, 196n36; login, 115; mining, 56, 153, 154; personal, xii
deception, 21, 141, 175n28; self, 74, 91, 119, 136
delegated enjoyment, 24–25, 177n35
de-narrativization, 83
dependency, 218n78
depression, social networks and, 172n20
Derakhshan, Hossein, 141, 220n82
Descartes, 62
desires, 188n3
despotism, 102
detached engagement, 183n69
“Development of Wit” (Jean Paul), 102–3
devil, pact with, 31
diachronic self, 87
dialect, 147
dialectical image, 186n89
Dialectic of Enlightenment (Adorno and Horkheimer), 155, 175n28
diaries, 53, 54, 60, 64, 73–74, 77–78, 195n34
digital: communication, 70; Dadaism, 196n36; humanities, 154, 225n3; materiality of, 174n25; measurement, consciousness and, 82–83; media, 97, 128, 168n6, 175n28; memory, 178n42; photography, 176n34, 189n11
disability, communication and, 9
discrimination, 119
dis-membering, communication and, 134, 142, 215n70, 216n71
dispositif, xiii, 8, 39, 78, 141, 148, 168n5
distant reading, 225n3
distraction, 26, 96, 148, 205n9
distributed cognition, 154, 202n53
divine temporality, 32
double-click principle, 188n4
drama, of photography, 44–45
Dreyfus, Herbert L., 142, 143, 220n85
drift, 199n45
Dropbox, 168n6
Dunbar, Robin, 5
education, theory of, 122
egotism, 179n44
Eichmann, Adolph, 95
e-mail, archiving, 209n35
emancipation, 14–15, 106–7, 203n3
emoticons, 192n20
emotional community, 218n77
employers, Facebook and, 200n50
emptiness, 179n44
enforced collectivity, narrative and, 118–31
Enlightenment, x, 8, 15, 31, 33, 42, 57, 95, 99, 121–23, 135
episodic identity, 92, 98, 137
episodic perception, 98
Erfahrung. See longer-term experience
Erlebnis. See incidental lived experience
Ernst und Falk (Lessing), 121–22, 124
“Essay on a Theory of Social Behavior” (Schleiermacher), 7
ethical narrativity, 87
ethics, 221n87
existence, aesthetics of, 80
eXistenZ, 216n71
Ex Machina, 155
exosocialization, 110, 118, 122, 208n30
experience: camera and, 21–23; communication and, 76; cumulative, 50; delegation of, 178n42; documentation and, xiv; interpretation and, 43, 50–51; lived, 25, 28, 35–36, 43, 47, 50, 177n37; longer-term, 25, 43, 47, 177n37; perception and, 43; photography and, 21–23, 27, 178n42; poverty and, 47, 48, 50; of presence, 30; sharing of, xiv; smartphones and, 21–23; of time, 84; vanishing, 41–51
“Experience and Poverty” (Benjamin), 25, 47, 48, 49, 177n36, 224n2
externalization of self, 202n53
F8, 75
Facebook, viii, 141, 159; “About” section, 67, 68; activity log, 71; advertising, 40, 140; archiving of, 64; artificial intelligence, 76; autobiography and, 88, 200n50; automation of, 64; communication through, xii, 147, 152, 165–66; community, xiii, 39, 133, 168n6; “Connections,” 193n23; corporate leadership of, xiii; criticism of, 19; cultural values of, xi, 140, 148; data acquisition of, 56; employers and, 200n50; fill-in segments of, 67–68; “Friend Request,” 193n23; groups, 139; headings, 67–68; identity and, 67–68; image descriptions on, 193n24; innovations of, 19; journalism and, 194n26; Live, 162; main office of, 14; memory and, 142; mission of, 6, 148, 163, 170n9; Moments, 179n43; narrative and, 69, 70, 192n21; newsfeed, 66; Oculus Rift, 75, 76, 153; page of Zuckerberg, 194n26; pages, 61, 64; photography on, 68; “Pokes,” 193n23; politics and, 139–42, 219n81; popularity, xiii; portrayal of life on, 3; power of, 19–20; profile, 2; psychological relevance of, 36; relationships and, 6; “Say Thanks,” 71, 74; self and, 91; self-description on, 64, 67–68; “Shares,” 193n23; sharing culture, xiv; Snapchat and, 76; social norms and, 19, 175n29; status updates, 44, 54, 59, 69, 78, 88, 119–20, 136–37, 192n21, 193n22, 205n9; storytelling on, 56, 193n24; “Suggested Friends,” 71; surveillance and, 16; timeline, 55, 59–60, 195n34, 200n50; volume of publishing on, 188n1; “Wallposts,” 193n23; as waste of time, 18; “Year in Review,” 64–65, 71, 74. See also algorithm; friends
“Facebook Demetricator” (Grosser), 172n18
Facebook society, xiii, xv–xvi, 49
facial recognition, 16, 179n43
fame, 15
family, 132
fascism, 216n73
#FatIsNotaFeeling, 192n20
fatigue, 48
Faust (Goethe), 1, 32–33, 36, 181n56
feeling, of community, 38
Felton, Nicholas, 80
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 122
Fincher, David, 170n5
Flight from God, The (Picard), 29
“Flight from the Story” (Balász), 45
Flusser, Vilém, 129–30, 131, 214n61
forgetting, 109, 133–34, 209n32, 211n41, 215n69
Foucault, Michel, 17, 80, 111, 168n5, 225n5
4chan, 4
Francis (Pope), 180n46
freedom of opinion, 15
free labor, 16
French revolution, 37
Freud, Anna, 14
Freud, Sigmund, 14
frictionless sharing, 61, 82, 96, 153, 162
“Friend Request,” 193n23
friends, xii, 204n6; blocking, 16; close, 4; collecting, 5; community of, 39; difficulty of modern, 172n16; false, 5, 9–10, 12; former classmates, 7; new, 6–7; political postings of, 9, 171n13; real, 12–13; for sale, 12; spatial proximity and, 1; suggestions, 2; tagging, 16; traditional model of, 10
Friendster, 5
fundamentalism, 221n88
fundamentalist gangs, 220n82
future, 34–35
Garland, Alex, 155
Gatterer, Johann Christoph, 58, 60
Generation X, 92
Generation X (Coupland), 92
geography, 209n34
ghostwriter, algorithm as, 88
global community, 163–66, 170n9
global linkage, social networks, 170n9
Goethe, 1, 31, 32–33, 36, 181n56
Google, 168n6
Google Glass, 75
governance strategies, 16–17
governmentality, 16–18, 174n27
grand narrative, xv, 33, 34, 43, 79, 83, 112, 182n58, 221n89
Greenaway, Peter, 221n89
Grosser, Benjamin, 172n18
groundless community, 131–49, 163, 164
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich, 41–43, 50, 167n3, 184nn72–73
habit and habitation, 129
hacking, 81–82
haiku, 212n42
Han, Byung-Chul, 83
hare-hunting analogy, 35
Harris, Josh, 173n22
health services, 174n27
“Hedgehog and the Fox, The” (Berlin), 100, 205n11
Heidegger, Martin, 36, 49, 85, 146, 157
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 105, 188n7, 207n24
hermeneutics, 145–46, 153–54, 222n90, 222n94
Herodotus, 57
Hesse, Herman, 53
historical thinking, 184n73
historical writing, 43, 56, 58, 186n89
historiography, 43, 57, 58, 90, 201n52
history, 33–34; archiving and, 113; browsing, 115; disappearance of events in, 58; end of, 84, 182n58, 182n62, 197n40; of historiography, 57; image and, 62; of media, 106; memory and, 121, 209n34; narrative and, 57, 72, 83, 197n40, 209n34; oral, 109, 191n19, 208n27; philosophy of, 197n40; photography and, 190n14; technology and, 138
home, 129–30
homelessness, 130
hopelessness, 48
“Hostage, The” (Schiller), 11
human agency, 201n51
human condition, 182n62
humanity, 7, 153, 156, 221n87, 226n6
humankind, 210n36
human rights, 113, 121, 123, 127–28, 133, 202n53
humans, 8, 30, 37, 76, 121–22, 124, 154, 202n53
Hume, David, 199n48
hyper-reading, 106
hyperstimulation, 95
hypertext, 99, 101, 116, 205n10
identity, 87; autobiography and, 88; community and, 131, 218n77; corporate, 65; crisis, 81, 144; culture and, 98, 120–21, 122, 125–26, 215n68; definition of, 199n45; as duty, 119; episodic, 92, 98, 137; Facebook and, 66–67; false, 4; formation, 91, 215n68; integrity and, 4; liquid, 10; management, 64; meaning and, 145; narrative, 62–70, 145, 147, 190n15, 200n49; national, 110, 125, 134; online, 2; postmodernity and, 91; temporalities and, 199n45; truth and, 120; universal, 212n48; workshops, 2, 169n2
idolatry, 59
image, 46, 62, 76, 141, 186n89, 190n12, 193n24, 194n27. See also photography
imagined community, 39
immobility, humans and, 30
incidental lived experience (Erlebnis), 25, 47, 113, 177n37
income reporting, 173n24
individual, 2, 174n27, 210n38, 212n49
indulgence, 32
infantilization, 95
information, 113; Bateson on, 214n60; beauty of, 130; communication and, 216n74; exchange, 65; on internet, 194n28; journalism and, 46; management, 158; narrative and, 114; noise and, 214n60; photography and, 44; reflection and, 105; sealing off of, 46; society, 105
inner eye, 59
Instagram, 24, 141, 159, 176n34
integrity, identity and, 4
interaction, thinking and, 205n9
interactive communication, 3
internal automatism, 55
internet, 2; accountability and, 142–43; activities on, 56; archiving and, 111, 114; brain and, 96; browser, 100–101, 205n11; chats, 216n71; collective memory and, 117–18; community, 131–32; cosmopolitanism and, 128–29; dark net, 111; information on, 194n28; knowledge and, 104; memory and, 114, 115; nation, 132; national sovereignty and, 106; nature of, 17; segregation of, 214n58; stateless, 128–29; storage and, 112; studies, 40; time, 132, 214n65; totalitarianism and, 101; total recall of, 210n36; universal access to, 140, 219n80
Internet Governance Forum, 132
interpassivity, 220n84
interpretation, 43, 50–51, 66, 154, 225n3
iPad, viii
Iran, 101
irony, 99, 126, 146–47, 221n89
Isay, Dave, 191n19
Islam, 213
JenniCam, 173n22
Jibo, 157
jokes, 1–2
journalism, 46–47, 65–66, 194n26
Joyce, Michael, 181n49
Kant, Immanuel, 20, 170n8, 181n54, 199n48
Kisch, Egon Erwin, 44
knowledge, 16–17, 20–21, 76, 101, 104–5, 118, 192n20
Kracauer, Siegfried, 35, 49, 53, 60, 85, 93–94, 110, 151, 152, 203n3, 224n2
Kubrick, Stanley, 155
kulturelle Erinnerung. See cultural recollection
kulturelles Gedächtnis. See cultural memory
Lacan, Jacques, 177n35
Lasch, Christopher, 179n44
law of historical conservation of energy, 188n7
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 121–22, 124–27, 213n54, 213n56
letters, 70
“Letter to Our Daughter, A” (Zuckerberg and Chan), 167n3
Levana, or the Doctrine of Education (Jean Paul), 102–3, 206n18
LGBT, 139
liberalism, 213
liberation, 34
lifestyle, 15
like-minded communities, 8
likes, 11–12, 28, 83, 168n5, 175n28, 188n3
links, 69, 96, 107. See also hyperlinks
listening, viii, 12, 29–30, 66, 146
literary realism, 58–59
literature, 58–59
lived experience, 25, 28, 35–36, 43, 47, 50, 134, 177n37
lived moment, xiv
Living at the Edge of Time (Gumbrecht), 43
lock-in effect, 19–20
loneliness, 28, 29, 37, 40, 159, 170n7, 180n46
long-distance nationalism, 214n61
longer-term experience (Erfahrung), 25, 43, 47, 113, 177n37
longing, 38
loss, 34
lovers, of the moment, 39, 217n76
loyalty, 222n91
Lyotard, Jean-François, 83, 85, 120, 221n89
Mad Men, 179n43
Maffesoli, Michael, 167n3, 218n77
magazines, 93–94
management, of knowledge, 101
Manovich, Lev, 79
materiality, of digital, 174n25
Material Virtualities: Approaching Online Textual Embodiment (Sunden), 169n2
mathematical thinking, 169n8
mathematized communication, 17, 174n27
meaning: Being and, 216n73; collective, 110; collective memory and, 118; culture, 41–42, 51, 184n72; identity and, 145; of life, 35, 182n62; photography and, 190n12; shared, 216n73; stories and, 151–52
mechanical narrators, databases and, 70–83
mechanical reproduction, of reality, 113, 163
media, 49, 86, 96, 106, 108–18, 156
memory, 96, 125–26; aids, 24; archiving and, 112, 209n35; autological model of, 210n38; collective, 98, 99, 108, 116, 208n27, 208n28; community and, 142; connectivity and, 133; cultural, 208n27; culture of, 112; Darwinism, 114; end of, 114; Facebook and, 142; forgetting and, 109; functional, 109, 208n27; history and, 121, 209n34; of humankind, 210n36; hyptertext and collective, 116; images, 190n12; individual and collective, 210n38; internet and, 114, 115; internet and collective, 117–18; media and, 108–18; object and, 116; outsourcing, 113; photography and, 96, 117; reading and, 97, 204n4; recollection and, 117; shaping of, 117; of society, 115; spatial appearance and, 96, 204n6; spiritualization of, 135, 142; storage, 109–10, 208n27; technical, 204n6; thinking and, 97, 204n4; undesirable, 109; video and, 117; wit and, 103; writing and, 117
metanarratives, 120, 125, 145, 221n89
metaphysical homelessness, Facebook society and, 49
Meyrowitz, Joshua, 173nn23–24
mininarratives, 66
minorities, rights of, 15
mobile media, storytelling and, 65
modernism, 29
modernity, 8, 82, 199n45, 209n33
moment. See now
moral decadence, vii
moral growth, reflection and, 87–88
morality, forgetting and, 215n69
Mukurtu software project, 211n39
musealization, 113, 209n33, 209n35
mutual acceptance, social networks and, 131
Nancy, Jean-Luc, 38, 93, 135–37, 141–42, 144, 149, 156–57, 163–64, 216nn73–74, 217n76, 218nn77–78, 219n79, 222n94
narcissism, vii, x, xvi, 8, 14–15, 157–58, 179n44
narrative: algorithm and, 89; archiving and, 110; autobiography and, 62; bias and, 153; cause-and-effect and, 194n28; chains of, 83; in cinema, 221n89; collective, 124, 153; communication and, 69; culture and, 99, 145; daily, 120; database and, 79; end of, 85; endpoint of, 190n14; enforced collectivity and, 118–31; episodic, 87, 199n48; Facebook and, 69, 70, 192n21; historiography as, 58, 201n52; history and, 57, 72, 83, 197n40, 209n34; identity, 62–70, 145, 147, 190n15, 200n49; information and, 114; journalism, 66; knowledge, 192n20; life as, 199n47; mathematics and, 226n6; metanarratives, 120, 125, 145, 221n89; mininarratives, 66; numerical representation and, 17, 80; opposing, 121; outsourcing, 153, 154; passion, 87; personal, 201n51; pointillism of, 67; in politics, 65; pollution, 78; processing and, 78; psychology, 69, 90, 196n36, 199n48; quest, 199n47; reflection and, 98; self and, 190n15; self-deception and, 119; self-description and, 74; self-narration, 76; self-understanding, 92; on social media, 91; temporalities and, 190nn14–15; theory, 83; third person, 69; truth and, 65–66, 71; turn, 65, 66; unified, 120; value of, 98
Narrative Science, 72
narrativity, 66, 68, 87, 127, 145, 199n48
Nathan the Wise (Lessing), 124–27, 213n54, 213n56
national identity, 110, 125, 134
National Socialism, 112, 199n48
national sovereignty, internet and, 106
naturalism, 189n11
neo-liberal individualization, 174n27
Net Decision, The (Morozov), 143, 220n84
Netflix, 61
networked communication, 17
networked objects, 178n42
networking, of hypertext, 99
New Journalism, 66
New Left, 15
news, as database, 191n18
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 35, 36, 86, 198n44
Nike+, 196n35
non-belonging, 36
noncommitment, relationships and, 10
nonconscious cognition, 154
non-goal-directed activity, 198n44
non-participation, 36
nonverbal documentation, xv, 169n8
normativity, 17
No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior (Meyrowitz), 173nn23–24
nostalgia, 178n42
nothing, metaphysics and, 184n71
nothingness, 84
now, 21–41, 46, 176n32, 178n41, 180n45
numerical narrative, 80
numerical representation, narrative and, 17
objectivity, 43–44, 59, 66, 72, 203n3
observation, camera and, 45
“Of Struction” (Nancy), 219n79
“On Exactitude in Science” (Borges), 111
“On Some Motifs in Baudelaire” (Benjamin), 177n37
opportunism, likes and, 11–12
OptimizeMe, 174n27
oral history, 109, 191n19, 208n27
Orkut, 168n6
pact with devil, 31
Panopticon, 16
“Panther, The” (Rilke), 6
participatory journalism, 65
passionless archive, 113
passionless mania, 110
patriotism, passion and, 129
Paul, Jean, 102, 103–4, 106, 107, 108, 113, 122, 130, 206n12, 206nn15–18, 207n26
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 59, 189n11
perfectibility, 33
personal data, xii
Pessoa, Fernando, 41
Pfaller, Robert, 177n35
Phaedrus (Plato), 109
phatic communication, 40, 42, 51, 98, 140, 146–48, 151, 184n70, 198n44
philosophy: anti-philosophy of the object, 44, 60, 94; of history, x, xii, 197n40; of information, 61; of language, 102; non-subject of, 49; postmodern, 106, 126; postpolitical, 139
photography, 141, 186n90; archive of images, 24; archiving and, 110–11; autobiography and, 56, 72; Barthes on, 27; Baudrillard on, 44–45, 60, 94; as betrayal, 23, 176n34; busyness and, 178n42; cognition and, 94–95, 151; communication and, 26, 35, 50, 60, 178n40; consciousness and, 152; context of, 44; cost-free nature of, 24; death and, 2; digital, 176n34, 189n11; drama of, 44–45; emancipation and, 203n3; as evidence, 178n42; experience and, 21–23, 27, 178n42; on Facebook, 68; history and, 190n14; indexicality of, 60, 189n11; information and, 44; Kracauer on, 53, 60, 93–94, 110, 151, 152, 203n3, 224n2; manipulation of, 189n11; meaning and, 190n12; memory and, 96, 117; now and, 176n32; object and, 94; objectivity of, 59, 66, 203n3; objects and, 60; obsession with, 35; popularity of, 152; reality and, 94; respectability and, 26, 50; retouching, 189n11; self-presentation and, 152; self-representation and, 151; society and, 152; Sontag on, 178n42; storage, 176n34; truth and, 59, 94–95; volume of, 23–24
“Photography” (Kracauer), 53
phubbing, 1
Picard, Max, 29, 30, 86, 191n49
Plato, 109
pluralism, 106, 126, 132, 213n54
police, 167n1
political activism, 15
political bloggers, 220n82
political economy, of social media, 174n26
political engagement, 143
political postings, of friends, 9, 171n13
politics, 65, 127, 139–42, 148, 219n81
populism, 165
positivism, 203n3
posthuman self-description, 83–92, 154
Postman, Neil, 209n34
postmodernism, cosmopolitanism and, 222n91
postmodernity, 33, 86, 88–89, 91, 103–4
postmodern literary theory, 205n10
postmodern poetics, 118
poverty, 25–26, 47, 48, 50, 144
power, of Facebook, 19–20
pragmatism, 32
predilections, 188n3
presentism, 87
printed media, 117
printing press, 101
privacy, 14–16, 21, 41, 111, 173n24, 175n29, 177n36, 179n43
private enterprises, state and, 174n25
private sphere, public sphere and, 177n36
processing, narrative and, 78
Production of Presence (Gumbrecht), 184n73
“Prometheus” (Goethe), 31
propaganda, 171n12
“Proper Diet for the Listener, The,” 29
protection, camera as, 24
protest culture, 220n84
Pschera, Alexander, 216n76
psychoanalytic theory, 14
psychology, narrative, 90, 196n36, 199n48
psychotherapy, 80
publication, of privacy, 21
public sphere, private sphere and, 177n36
purposefulness, 39
QQ, 168n6
Quantified Self movement, 79–80, 91, 174n27, 195n34
questionnaires, 66, 78, 192n20
Quit Facebook Day, 176n30
radio, 29, 106, 128, 173n24, 207n24
raw content, 162
reading, 97, 100, 104–8, 204n4, 225n3
realism, literary, 58–59
reality principle, 106–7
reasoning, democracy and, 95
receiver, sender and, 205n9
reception theory, 18
recollection, 24, 117, 121, 133, 134, 154, 208n27
recording, archiving and, 209n35
recording media, 96
reflection, xv, xvi, 46, 51, 56, 77–78, 87–88, 98, 105, 141, 166, 182n62
refugee, 214n61
Reich, Wilhelm, 14
relational aesthetics, 148, 222n94
relationships, 6, 10, 63, 180n46
relativism, 15
religion, 8, 125–27, 148, 209n34
remote seeing, xii
“Reporters” (Gumbrecht), 43–44
reporting, reflection and, 77–78
representation, xv
repression, 44
repressive tolerance, 140–41, 219n81
resistance, 176n30
respectability, photography and, 26, 50
restlessness, fear and, 31
retouching photography, 189n11
revolt, 38
Rheingold, Howard, 133
Ricoeur, Paul, 68, 193n22, 199n48
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 6, 22–23, 25
Ringley, Jennifer, 173n22
Romanticism, 10–11, 13, 198n44
ruling class, 186n89
Safari browser, 205n11
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 30
Sandberg, Sheryl, 170n9
Schiller, Friedrich, 11
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 7, 30
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 104–6, 107, 207n23, 207n24
Scientology, 220n84
screenshots, 194n27
search engines, 111
segregation, of internet, 214n58
Selbstdenken. See thinking for oneself
Selected Writings (Benjamin), 177n37
self: archiving, 113–14; avoidance, 27; branding, 16, 54–55; celebration of, 51; censorship, 69–70, 140; construct, 55; cultivation, 105; databases and, 81; deception, 13, 91, 119, 172n20; description, 64, 67–68, 73–74, 83–92, 98, 154; diachronic, 87; discovery, 67; estrangement, 50; experience, 154; exploration, 13, 80; expression, 15, 30; externalization of, 202n53; Facebook and, 91; focus on, 63; image, 166; improvement, 36; justification, 51; knowledge, 21, 54, 79; management, 70; measurement, 80, 174n27; narration, 76; narrative and, 190n15; observation, 74, 76, 77, 79; optimization, 82; perception, 3, 56, 63; presentation, 75, 110, 152; promotion, 154, 155; quantification, 81; reflection, 54, 64, 145; relationship with, 63; representation, xiii, 13–21, 28, 50–51, 54, 56, 63–64, 66, 90, 151, 158, 163, 178n42; return to, 85; skepticism, 106–7; surveillance, 173n22; tracking, 55, 78–79, 81–82, 113, 153, 196n35; true, 79; understanding, 55, 92, 154, 163
self-deleting images/videos, 76, 163, 194n26
selfies, viii, 77
sender, receiver and, 205n9
Sennett, Richard, 2
serenity, 90
Shallows, The: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain (Carr), 96
sharing, xiv, 4, 28, 46, 61, 82, 96, 146, 148, 153, 158, 162, 168n5, 194n26, 216n74
Shoah project, 211n39
short-termism, 95
Silverman, Jacob, 178n42
singularity, 120, 137, 139, 144
Siri, 157
skepticism, about new media, x
Skype, viii, 168n6
Sleep (Warhol), 187n95
small talk, 39–40
Smith, Zadie, 170n5
Snapchat, xiv–xv, 25, 60–61, 76, 77, 91, 96, 141, 162–63, 194nn26–27
Snapstreak, 194n27
SNS. See social network site
social bonds, 180n46
social capacity, 5
social circle, 7
social context, 34
social control, 17
social determinism, 189n11
social discipline, 3
social dispositifs, xiii, 78, 141, 148, 168n5
social distance, individual freedom and, 2
social hope, 40
social isolation, 35
social media, 20, 56, 91, 141, 174n26, 180n46, 187n95
Social Network, The, 170n5
social networks, 149; attentional economy and, 26, 65; automation and, 46; busyness and, 25; communication and, 112, 184n70; concept of, 168n6; cosmopolitanism and, 131; critique of, 30; depression and, 172n20; dispositifs and, xiii, 168n5; as drug, 28; global linkage, 170n9; managers of, 13; mutual acceptance and, 131; relationships and, 10; self-branding and, 54–55; self-description on, 98; self-observation on, 77; self-representation and, 51, 56; theater on, 3; universal language and, 183n69
social network site (SNS), 168n6
social psychology, 46
social violence, 135
Socialyup, 12
solidarity, 28
solitude, 28, 29–30, 35, 37, 180n45
“Song of Myself” (Whitman), 51
Sontag, Susan, 178n42
spatial appearance, 94, 96, 154, 204n6
spatial continuum, 93
spatial proximity, 1
spherical video, 75
Spielberg, Steven, 211n39
Spirit of Film, The (Balász), 45
spiritualization, of memory, 135, 142
Spotify, 61
SpreadSheets, 82
Staples, William G., 174n25
state, private enterprises and, 174n25
status updates, 44, 54, 59, 69, 78, 88, 119–20, 136–37, 192n21, 193n22, 205n9
Steppenwolf (Hesse), 53
Stiegler, Bernard, 95–96, 97, 98, 157, 203n4
stillness, 73
storage, 112, 114, 176n34, 210n37
stories, meaning and, 151–52
StoryBooths, 191n19
StoryCorps, 191n19
storytelling, 24, 47, 56, 62–63, 65, 69, 70, 74, 92, 110, 191n19, 193n24
strategic forgetting, 109
strategic remembering, 109
Strawson, 199n48
streaming, 162
students, mental condition of, 221n86
sublation, xiv
Sunden, Jenny, 169n2
surveillance, 16, 20, 21, 116, 173n21, 173n22, 174n25, 176n30
survivalism, 179n44
Sylvie and Bruno (Carroll), 111
symbolic systems, 119
synthesis, 63
systems thinking, 99–108
taboo, 183n69
Tacitus, 57
Talbot, William Henry Fox, 59
Taylor, Charles, xi
technocratic rationality, 155
technology, vii, x, 44, 72, 74–75, 82, 96, 132–33, 138, 161, 172n16, 209n35, 214n65
Technopoly, 209n34
telematics dispositif, 39
telephone conversations, 70
television, 65, 106, 128, 173n24, 187n95
temporalities, 28, 32, 190nn14–15, 199n45
Thamus (king), 108–9
theater, on social networks, 3
theoretical constructs, 102
Theory of Bloom (Tiqqun collective), 36, 38
thinking, 97, 145–47, 151–53, 204n4, 205n9, 222nn93–94
thinking for oneself (Selbstdenken), 104–6, 207n23
third person narrative, 69
thoughts, communication with, 75
Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche), 86, 198n44
time, 84, 86, 132, 197n40, 199n45, 214n65
timeline, Facebook, 55, 59–60, 195n34, 200n50
Timoner, Ondi, 173n22
Tiqqun collective, 36, 37, 38, 49
tolerance, 126, 127, 129, 131, 140–41, 143, 213n54, 219n81, 222n92
total recall, of internet, 210n36
tracking, self, 55, 78–79, 81–82, 113, 153, 196n35
traffic, texting in, 167n1
transhumanism, 157
transience, of life, 178n42
transparency, 13–14, 61, 77, 162, 165, 173n21
Transparent Society, The (Vattimo), 207n24
true shared contemporaneity, 64
Trump, Donald, 165
truth, 44, 58–59, 65–66, 71, 90, 94–95, 120, 125–26, 162, 186n90, 201n52
Turkle, Sherry, 137
Two Ages: A Literary Review (Kierkegaard), 142
2001: A Space Odyssey, 155
tyranny of the moment, 26, 178n41
UN Charter of Human Rights, 212n49
unconditional contemporaneity, 169n7
unconscious, cognitive, 202n53
unconscious sharing, 194n26
understanding, hyperlinks and, 165
unequal opportunities, 16
unified narrative, 120
universal human element, 8
universalism, 121, 122, 123, 212n49
universal language, social network and, 183n69
universal republic, 103
universal values, 113
values, 113, 123, 132, 211n41, 212n49, 212n50
vanity, 28
Vattimo, Gianni, 107, 108, 128, 145, 147, 207n24, 222n91
Verblendung. See communicative deception
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 211n39
Vietnam War, 211n39
virtual community, 133, 215n66
Virtual Community, The (Rheingold), 133
virtual lynching, 148
virtual reality (VR), 8, 75, 153, 157, 194n26
virtual self, 81
visual stories, 24
vita activa, 50
VR. See virtual reality
waiting, 86
wakefulness, 95
weak thinking, 145–46, 147, 151–52, 153, 222n93
weapon, camera as, 21–22
wearables, 169n8
Web 2.0, 111
Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, 176n30
websites, 113
We Live in Public (Timoner), 173n22
WELL, 133
“What Is the Contemporary?,” 1n769
White, Hayden, 43
Whitman, Walt, 51
Wikipedia, 168n6
William Lovell (Tieck), 32
Wired, 131
witness, consciousness and, 46
Wolf, Maryanne, 96–97
“Work of Art That Observes Itself, The” (Pfaler), 177n35
world, as database, 79
world affirmation, 167n3
World of Silence, The (Picard), 29, 181n49
World of Warcraft, 4
younger generation, vii–ix
youth, 48
YouTube, 13
Zuckerberg, Mark, 2, 13–14, 75, 140, 162–66, 167n3, 170n9, 175n29, 194n26, 219n80