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Bits e agrimensura: contributos para o mapeamento do imprevisível no digital
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A presente investigação parte da tentativa de fazer justiça ao verbete de dicionário que
explicita a palavra digital. Sendo um vocábulo omnipresente em todo o tipo de discursos,
é remetido, por norma, a uma abstracção com vista a uma esteticização de determinados
materiais ou a um aparato técnico com vista à transmissão de informação. Podendo
também ser isso o digital, aqui é escalpelizado em algumas das suas variantes e
potencialidades: acima de tudo, é tratado como um conceito.
Partindo de declarações de Aleksandr Sokurov, onde afirmava que na feitura de
um dos seus filmes só conseguira atingir um alto grau de emoções, de Verdade, através
do labor analógico, questionamos essa assunção, por considerarmos qualquer distinção
entre analógico e digital já não ser devidamente operativa ao sujeito das «sociedades de
controlo» (Gilles Deleuze). Seguindo as pistas de Bernard Stiegler iremos propor que o
combate estético é um combate político e que a complexidade da questão passa por
agrimensarmos o conceito «digital» de modo que o sujeito, hoje, tenha presente as
condições da situação em que está imerso, para melhor reivindicar processos de
individuação por entre processos modulatórios alicerçados na digitalidade reinante.
Mesmo que não indiquemos, inequivocamente, o local das novas armas, iremos
propor alguns contributos para a delimitação do terreno onde hoje cada um se move. Para
tal, tentaremos averiguar se há possibilidade, ou não, de haver contingência nos processos
do código binário e que consequências daí advêm. Afastados de prescrições biopolíticas,
argumentamos que esta cartografia servirá para que a relação do sujeito com os
dispositivos retencionários que o circundam, bem como a relação da sua consciência com
os objectos temporais industriais com que interage, ganhe uma brecha emancipatória. Em
suma, ao circundarmos um conceito repleto de equívocos, tentaremos averiguar, de uma
maneira ou outra, quais as possibilidades de individuação numa época marcada pela
miséria simbólica por todos partilhada.
This research begins with an attempt to do justice to the dictionary entry that defines the word digital. As an omnipresent term in all types of discourse, it is typically reduced either to an abstraction aimed at the aestheticization of certain materials or to a technical apparatus designed for the transmission of information. While it may indeed serve these functions, here, the digital is dissected in some of its variations and potentials: above all, it is treated as a concept. Starting from statements made by Aleksandr Sokurov, in which he asserted that in one of his films he could only achieve a high degree of emotion, of Truth, through analog craftsmanship, we question this assumption, considering that any distinction between analog and digital is no longer operational for the subject of «societies of control» (Gilles Deleuze). Following Bernard Stiegler’s insights, we propose that the aesthetic struggle is a political struggle and that the complexity of the issue lies in mapping out the concept of digital so that the subject today becomes aware of the conditions of the situation in which he is immersed, in order to better reclaim his individuation amidst modulating processes anchored in prevailing digitality. Even if we do not unequivocally indicate the location of the new weapons, we offer some contributions towards delineating the terrain in which each individual moves today. To this end, we will investigate whether there is a possibility of contingency within binary code processes and what consequences arise from it. Distant from biopolitical prescriptions, we argue that this cartography will serve to create an emancipatory breach in the subject's relationship with the retentional devices surrounding them, as well as in the relationship between their consciousness and the industrial temporal objects with which they interact. In sum, by navigating a concept riddled with ambiguities, we will explore, in different ways, the possibilities of individuation in an era marked by a shared symbolic misery.
This research begins with an attempt to do justice to the dictionary entry that defines the word digital. As an omnipresent term in all types of discourse, it is typically reduced either to an abstraction aimed at the aestheticization of certain materials or to a technical apparatus designed for the transmission of information. While it may indeed serve these functions, here, the digital is dissected in some of its variations and potentials: above all, it is treated as a concept. Starting from statements made by Aleksandr Sokurov, in which he asserted that in one of his films he could only achieve a high degree of emotion, of Truth, through analog craftsmanship, we question this assumption, considering that any distinction between analog and digital is no longer operational for the subject of «societies of control» (Gilles Deleuze). Following Bernard Stiegler’s insights, we propose that the aesthetic struggle is a political struggle and that the complexity of the issue lies in mapping out the concept of digital so that the subject today becomes aware of the conditions of the situation in which he is immersed, in order to better reclaim his individuation amidst modulating processes anchored in prevailing digitality. Even if we do not unequivocally indicate the location of the new weapons, we offer some contributions towards delineating the terrain in which each individual moves today. To this end, we will investigate whether there is a possibility of contingency within binary code processes and what consequences arise from it. Distant from biopolitical prescriptions, we argue that this cartography will serve to create an emancipatory breach in the subject's relationship with the retentional devices surrounding them, as well as in the relationship between their consciousness and the industrial temporal objects with which they interact. In sum, by navigating a concept riddled with ambiguities, we will explore, in different ways, the possibilities of individuation in an era marked by a shared symbolic misery.
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Digital Symbolic misery Miséria simbólica Bit Dispositivos retencionários, Retentional devices Contingência Contingency Protention Anonymous materials Protensão The unpresentable Materiais anónimos Impresentificável