![S3 [(un)real data] E1: (In)dividuality and the Quantified Self [w/ Felix Stalder]](https://s3.castbox.fm/64/c3/1d/5d026514c4e98afa43da519b86fa3b451e_scaled_v1_400.jpg "S3 [(un)real data] E1: (In)dividuality and the Quantified Self [w/ Felix Stalder]")
S3 [(un)real data] E1: (In)dividuality and the Quantified Self [w/ Felix Stalder]
Description
The rise of computation in the 1950s shifted society to one constructed purely in commercial terms, where selling and buying have become the main social relation and every possible human form of contact is reimagined as a service or a product. What does this imply for the self? When individuals are broken up into parts that are measurable as data streams, the self is quantified and life is understood through numbers, where the ultimate number is profit. Professor of Digital Culture and Network Theory Felix Stalder discusses the ambiguity of data, the limits of computation and what interpretations might exist beyond the world as a set of measurements.
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[Video] Unreal Is the New Real, a talk by Felix Stalder at (un)real data – real effects conference, 2024
COLOPHON
Host: Neja Berger
Guest: Felix Stalder
Recording and editing: Neja Berger
Music and Audio Mix: Gašper Torkar
Production:
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art
Ljubljana, 2024
Producer: Marcela Okretič
Part of
Tactics&Practice#15: (un)real data – real effects
Curated by !Mediengruppe Bitnik (Carmen Weisskopf in Domagoj Smoljo)
In collaboration with Janez Fakin Janša
Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.
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