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Never Alone, Except for Now

Art, Networks, Populations

By (author) Kris Cohen
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Duke University Press, North Carolina, United States
Published: 27th Oct 2017
Dimensions: w 147mm h 231mm d 15mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN-10: 0822369400
ISBN-13: 9780822369400
Barcode No: 9780822369400
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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 web-such as emoticons, trolling, and search engines-in conversation with artworks by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, William Gibson, Sharon Hayes, and Thomson & Craighead to more precisely articulate the affective and aesthetic experiences of living between publics and populations. This liminal experience-caught between existing as a set of data points and as individuals newly empowered to create their own online communities-explains, Cohen contends, how one is simultaneously alone and connected in ways never before possible.

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"Never Alone, Except for Now would make a good addition to collections at academic and museum libraries that serve patrons interested in the cultural and social machinations of the internet as they relate to critical theory and contemporary art." -- Linden How * ARLIS/NA Reviews * "Never Alone, Except for Now [is] an essential contribution to our evolving cultural study of who we are and what, in the tightening embrace of computational superintelligence, we will come to be." -- Steven Henry Madoff * Critical Inquiry *