Digital Feminicity: Predication and Measurement, Materialist Informatics and Images

Colman, Felicity

doi:10.7238/a.v0i14.2408

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“…New materialist ideas have much to add to the research of media technologies not only in the context of individual practice but also with regards to entrenched and often implicit societal networks of power through which they operate (Colman, 2014) (Coole, 2013), as people use technologies for many reasons; to participate in useful or enjoyable activities, to maintain social relationships, or because the idea corresponds with a specific notion of themselves, to name only a few. The diffractions that result from these processes emerge as new ways of formulating local identities, as new social and economic aspirations and as embodied, spatial and temporal knowledges capable of subverting other, more structured or formalized kinds of knowledge (Kenway & Hickey-Moody, 2011).…”

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“…The paper aims to contribute to a growing field in which the materiality of technologies is front and centre; a materialist informatics (Colman, 2014;Nakamura, 2003), but also a digital materialist (Casemajor, 2015;Reichert & Richterich, 2015) way of thinking about the technologies that have become a crucial part of most people's everyday lives.…”

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Remote communities, material entanglements and information and communications technologies as double agents

Horn

2022

Matter

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Digital devices and Information and Communications Technology or ICT play a prominent role in most people’s everyday lives, as the often unconscious, mostly unacknowledged entanglements between people, devices and infrastructure shape contemporary lives and co-determine activities and their outcomes. Communications technologies are particularly agentic for people who live in rural and remote parts of the world because they often lack easy access to goods and services that are ubiquitous in more urbanized areas. At the same time, access to ICTs in these areas is often tenuous because the maintenance of ICT infrastructure is not always economically viable. This paper examines emerging techno-lifeworlds in remote villages in Malaysia and their social, economic and political context through a new materialist lens. I argue that the entanglements with digital technologies and the resulting diffractions can result in increased agency for those involved. At the same time as this new materialist focus emphasizes the agentic role of devices and infrastructure, it allows for thinking through the power relationships that are implicated in the regional techno-politics and the economic and political interests that determine the material access to communications infrastructure.

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Section: Technologies As Double Agentsmentioning

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Remote communities, material entanglements and information and communications technologies as double agents

Horn

2022

Matter

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“…The interview becomes a political and feminist statement to a live, attentive audience. Coming from the feminist new materialist frame of interviewing and understanding feminist identities in the contexts with which they are made (Colman 2014;McTague et al 2017), we apply this concept to the new materialist trope that "every actual object is surrounded by a cloud of virtuality" (Hillis et al 2015, p. 9). This virtuality can be seen here in the intra-active engagements between layers of love heart emojis, black phone screens, sweating bodies, followers' comments, a flowing dress, and conversations about art.…”

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Entanglements of Difference as Community Togetherness: Faith, Art and Feminism

Hickey-Moody

Willcox

2019

Social Sciences

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Using a feminist, new materialist frame to activate ethico-political research exploring religion and gender at a community level both on Instagram and in arts workshops, we show how sharing ethnic backgrounds, religious beliefs, gender identities and sexualities through art practice entangles a diffraction of differences as ‘togetherness’. Such entanglement creates cross-cultural interfaith understandings and gender diverse acceptance and inclusion online. We use diffraction, intra-action and entanglement as a way of framing our understanding of this ‘togetherness’ and show that human feelings rely on more-than-human assemblages; they rely on homelands, countries, wars, places of worship, orientations, attractions, aesthetics, art and objects of attachment. The feelings of ‘community’ and ‘belonging’ that we discuss are therefore direct products of human and non-human interactions, which we explore through arts-based research. In this article, we apply Karen Barad’s feminist new materialist theories of ‘diffraction’, ‘intra-action’ and ‘entanglement’ to ways of thinking about human experience as intra-acting with aspects of the world that we classify as non-human. We use these new materialist frames to reconceptualize the human feelings of ‘community’, ‘belonging’ and ‘what really matters’ in feminist and intra-religious collaborative art practices and Instagram-based art communities. To better understand and encourage communities of difference, we argue that the feelings of ‘community’ and ‘belonging’, which are central to human subjectivity and experience, are produced by more-than-human assemblages and are central to identity. The methodologies we present are community focused, intra-active, arts-based research strategies for interrogating and understanding expressions of ‘community’ and ‘belonging’. We identify how creative methods are a significant and useful way of knowing about communities and argue that they are important because they are grounded in being with communities, showing that the specificity of their materiality needs to be considered.

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“…strand of monist minoritarian philosophy that helps to understand these currects changes. This paradigm is referred to as new materialism (van der Tuin, 2015;Dolphijn & van der Tuin, 2012;Rogowska-Stangret, 2017;Re vellesBenavente et al, 2014;Colman, 2014;Palmer, 2014). This paradigm has grown in between these fields of knowledge and encompases a transversal vision of knowledge that attempts to engage with the world through processes, relations, affects and intensities that push pre-established dualisms to the limits, producing instead affirmative critiques and dynamic methodologies that pursue queering linearities rather than static results.…”

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“…As previously stated, I cannot understand these three strands of material knowledges (new materialism, agential realism and feminist contemporary theory) apart from each other, which is the reason why I prevent the reader from finding an account of classificatory practices that provide similarities and differences between these two authors. I argue that understanding them diffractively provides a differing political methodology in order to engage with the (in)visible neo-liberal practices that structure unexhaustive hierarchies of power which hinder a feminist pursuit of "change" (Colman, 2014). …”

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«Sabers materials». Intraaccionar el nou materialisme de Van der Tuin amb el realisme agencial de Karen Barad

Benavente

2018

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The paper will discuss the theory of Iris van der Tuin's New Materialism together with Karen Barad's Agential Realism. The purpose of this approach is to find differing practices that help to construct a turn to what is considered a relational ontology in which ethics, epistemology, ontology and methodology merged into each other. This new paradigm is a transversal approach that generates genealogies of minoritarian philosophies and feminist theories in order to approach matter as a dynamic, agentive and relational entanglement in which human and non-human practices intra-act equally. As a result, a different point of departure is produced in order to generate knowledge, since instead of thinking through separate entities, new materialism and agential realism depart from the relations of those entities understanding them as dynamic processes. Apart from an active approach to matter, these theories are framed under an affirmative approach to theory making, queering the traditional sense of linearity and moving away from dichotomical binaries. Palabras clave: new materialism; contemporary feminism; agential realism; diffractive readings; affirmative critique; queer linearity Resum. Intraaccionar el nou materialisme de Van der Tuin amb el realisme agencial de Karen BaradAquest article proposa una discussió sobre la teoria del nou materialisme entès per Iris van der Tuin conjuntament amb la teoria del realisme agencial de Karen Barad. L'objectiu principal d'aquest enfocament és trobar pràctiques diferencials que ajudin a construir un gir cap al que s'anomena ontologia relacional, en la qual ètica, epistemologia, ontologia i metodologia s'entenen com a inseparables. Aquest nou paradigma transversal genera genealogies de filosofies minoritàries i teories feministes per entendre la matèria com un entrellaçament dinàmic, agencial i relacional on pràctiques humanes i no humanes intraaccionen d'una manera igualitària. Així doncs, el nou materialisme i el realisme agencial produeixen un punt de partida diferent per generar coneixement que, en lloc de pensar a través d'entitats clarament diferenciades, parteixen d'aquestes relacions com a processos dinàmics inseparables. A més d'oferir un acostament a la matèria com a agent actiu, aquestes teories s'emparen en un enfocament afirmatiu del procés de construcció teòrica, alteren la noció clàssica de linealitat i s'allunyen de binaris dicotòmics.

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Digital Feminicity: Predication and Measurement, Materialist Informatics and Images

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Remote communities, material entanglements and information and communications technologies as double agents

Remote communities, material entanglements and information and communications technologies as double agents

Entanglements of Difference as Community Togetherness: Faith, Art and Feminism

«Sabers materials». Intraaccionar el nou materialisme de Van der Tuin amb el realisme agencial de Karen Barad

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