Desires of Time and the Digital

1. Desires of Time and the Digital Marta Celletti School of Cultural and Social Science University of Western Australia Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

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3. Overview • Method • The concept of Desire • The concept of Time • Some Digital Times • Some productive desires of Time • Bibliography Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

4. Nomad Thought • playing with concepts • concepts as tools (hammers, fork and knife…) • how they are used • to which aim • in various context • a lot of ideas • production of • change • political intervention Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

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6. Time • I am not interested in what it is, what is the real and true nature of this concept. • I am curious about how it works, • for what it has been used for, • and how it has been used so far. Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

7. The interesting question • What is time? • What is digital time? • The opposite of real time ? • What reality is? • What people do with the concept of time? Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

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9. Lacanian Desire • In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the term desire designates the impossible relation that a subject has with objet petit a. According to Lacan, desire proper (in contrast with demand) can never be fulfilled. Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

10. Object petit a • In the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, objet petit a stands for the unattainable object of desire. It is sometimes called the object cause of desire. • objet petit a as the imaginary part-object an element which is imagined as separable from the rest of the body. He articulates objet a with the term agalma (Greek, an ornament). Just as the agalma is a precious object hidden in a worthless box, so objet petit a is the object of desire which we seek in the other. (1957, Les formations de l'inconscient) (1960-1961 Le transfert ) • objet petit a is defined as the leftover, the remnant left behind by the introduction of the Symbolic in the Real. (1962-1963 L'angoisse) (1964 The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis) • In the Discourse of the Master, one signifier attempts to represent the subject for all other signifiers, but a surplus is always produced: this surplus is objet petit a, a surplus meaning, a surplus of jouissance. (1969-1970 The Other Side of Psychoanalysis ) • objet petit a (object little-a) Lacan always insisted for it to remain untranslated "thus acquiring the status of an algebraic sign." (Écrits). Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

11. The Politics of Lack • Lacan • Freud (libidinal economy) consciousness/desire • Marx (political economy) production/ideology • Plato Desire is lack. Impossible to fulfill other than in dreams Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

12. The body/mind divide • Embodiment • Disembodiment • Politics at play • What is my politics here? • Virtuality as terra nullius? Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

13. What is more postmodern than the Internet? • What is more modern than the dichotomy body/mind? Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

14. Ramachandran Box Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

15. Ramachandran Box • The patient places the good limb into one side of the box (in this case the right hand) and the amputated limb into the other side. Due to the mirror, the patient sees a reflection of his good hand where his or her missing limb should be (indicated in lower contrast). The patient thus receives artificial visual feedback that the "resurrected" limb is now moving when he or she moves the good hand Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

16. Ramachandran Box Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

17. learned paralysis • Their hypothesis was that every time the patient attempted to move the paralyzed limb, he or she received sensory feedback (through vision and proprioception) that the limb did not move. This feedback stamped itself into the brain circuitry through a process of Hebbian learning, so that, even when the limb was no longer present, the brain had learned that the limb (and subsequent phantom) was paralyzed. Often a phantom limb is painful because it is felt to be stuck in an uncomfortable or unnatural position, and the patient feels he or she cannot move it. Ramachandran & Blakeslee 1998 Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

18. Synesthesia • Because this visual feedback elicits kinesthetic sensations, Ramachandran and Rogers-Ramachandran refer to this as a kind of visual-kinesthetic synesthesia, although this is true only in the broadest sense of the term. Ramachandran & Rogers-Ramachandran 1996 Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

19. Synesthesia • Synesthesia from the Ancient Greek σύν (syn), meaning "with," and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), meaning "sensation"'—is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

20. Spatial Neglect • Hemispatial neglect, also called unilateral neglect, spatial neglect or neglect syndrome is a neurological condition in which, after damage to one hemisphere of the brain, a deficit in attention to the opposite side of space is observed. • Neglect may also present as a delusional form, where the patient denies ownership of a limb or an entire side of the body. Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

21. Delusion • Delusions typically occur in the context of neurological or mental illness, although they are not tied to any particular disease and have been found to occur in the context of many pathological states (both physical and mental). However, they are of particular diagnostic importance in psychotic disorders and particularly in schizophrenia. Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

22. Delusion • A false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what almost everybody else believes and despite what constitutes incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary. The belief is not one ordinarily accepted by other members of the person's culture or subculture (e.g., it is not an article of religious faith). The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a handbook for mental health professionals that lists different categories of mental disorder and the criteria for diagnosing them, according to the publishing organization the American Psychiatric Association Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

23. The Politics of Lack • Lacan • Freud (libidinal economy) consciousness/desire • Marx (political economy) production/ideology • Plato Desire is lack. Impossible to fulfill other than in dreams Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

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25. Desiring Machine • Deleuze and Guattari oppose the Freudian conception of unconsciousness as a "theater", instead favoring a "factory" model: desire is not an imaginary force based on lack, but a real, productive force. Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

26. Desiring Machine • They describe the mechanistic nature of desire as a kind of "Desiring-Machine" that functions as a circuit breaker in a larger "circuit" of various other machines to which it is connected. Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

27. Desiring Machine • Meanwhile, the Desiring-Machine is also producing a flow of desire from itself. Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

28. Politics of Desire • Desire as distinctly political • Desire as Productive Desire (not ideological, not unconscious) • Capitalism as the greatest repression of desiring production in history • Desiring machines: those that are engaged in productive desire Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari Anti-Œdipus (1972). Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

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30. “What is Time? If no one asks me about it, I know; if I want to explain it to the one who asks, I don’t know” Augustine XI Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

31. Let’s have a look at time • different conceptions of time, • how they get used in society and • in knowledge organisation • their stratifications in the discourses on digital technologies Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

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33. Different conceptions of time • Classic Time • Modern Time • Contemporary Time Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

34. Time used in society/culture • Cyclical Time • Linear Time • Chaotic/Complex Time Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

35. Time used in Organisation of Knowledge • Time of Habits • Time of Memory • Time of Becoming Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

36. Stratifications on Digital Technologies • Time of Procedural Technology • Time of Data Base • Time of Search Engines Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

37. Some Times of the Digital • Reversed Time: day/night, work shifts, solitude, sociability • Parallel Time: following the rhythm of events, recomposing continuity, asynchrony of blogs, mails, alerts • Speed Time: Intense, slow motion, different speeds. Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

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39. Asyncronicity without the presence of the other? Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

40. Desire: desiring an answer to an e-mail, extension of imagination? • Productive Desire: producing the possibility for this time to come Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

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42. Virtuality as Desiring Machine • It is only when immanence is no longer immanence to anything other than itself that we can speak of a plane of immanence Deleuze, Gilles, Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life, Anne Boyman, trans., New York: Zone Books, 2001. Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

43. Virtuality as Desiring Machine • An opportunity to politically act • To reshape the concept of the body • To rethink the concepts of space and time • To learn to use these concepts differently Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

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45. Bibliography Augustine. Confessions, book XI. Bergson, H. (1913). Creative Evolution. London: Macmillan and Co. Crutchfield, J. P. (1990). Complexity: Order contra Chaos. Paper presented at the International Conference on Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, Iizuka, Japan. DeLanda, M. (1997). A thousand years of non linear history. New York: Zone Books. Deleuze, G. (1978). Le cours of Gilles Deleuze on Kant. Retrieved July, 2005, from www.webdeleuze.com Deleuze, G. (1994) Difference and repetition. London: The Athlone Press. Deleuze, G. (2004). Fuori dai cardini del tempo: lezioni su Kant. Milano: Associazione culturale Mimesis. Fabian, J. (1983). Time and the Other: how anthropology makes its object. NY, Oxford: Columbia University Press. Guattari, F. (1995). Chaosmosis : an ethico-aesthetic paradigm. Sydney: Power Publications. Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

46. Bibliography Kant, I., Wood, A. W., & Guyer, P. (1998). Critique of pure reason. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. Latour, B., & Woolgar, S. (1979). Laboratory life : the social construction of scientific facts. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. Mandelbrot, B. (1983). The fractal geometry of nature. San Francisco: Kant, I., Wood, A. W., & Guyer, P. (1998). Critique of pure reason. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. Freeman. Nicolis, G., & Prigogine, I. (1989). Exploring Complexity. Munich: GmbH & Co. Prigogine, I., & Stengers, I. (1984). Order out of chaos : man's new dialogue with nature. Toronto ; New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books. Ruelle, D. (1989). Chaotic Evolution and Strange Attractors. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press. Sophocles, Hölderlin, F., & Constantine, D. (2001). Hölderlin's Sophocles : Oedipus & Antigone. Tarset: Bloodaxe. Stengers, I. (2000). The Invention of Modern Science (D. Smith, Trans.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Desires of Time and the Digital - Marta Celletti

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