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Clemens Apprich: As We May Have Thought: How Memory Gets Exteriorized Through Media Technologies and What That Means for Critique in Digital Cultures
As We May Have Thought: How Memory Gets Exteriorized Through Media Technologies and What That Means for Critique in Digital Cultures
(p. 265 – 290)

Clemens Apprich

As We May Have Thought: How Memory Gets Exteriorized Through Media Technologies and What That Means for Critique in Digital Cultures

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  • digital culture
  • digitalization
  • criticism

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Clemens Apprich

is assistant professor in media studies at the University of Groningen and guest researcher at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His current research deals with filter algorithms and their application in data analysis as well as machine learning methods. He is the author of Technotopia: A Media Genealogy of Net Cultures (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017), and, together with Wendy Chun, Hito Steyerl, and Florian Cramer, co-authored Pattern Discrimination (University of Minnesota Press/meson press, 2019).
Erich Hörl (ed.), Nelly Y. Pinkrah (ed.), ...: Critique and the Digital

The computerization of today’s world has fundamentally transformed the sites of and for critique, and it challenges the meaning of critique as such. The subject of critique, constituted through the cultural techniques of modernity, now collides with the digital, which, as a condition of contemporary life, can be seen both as a product of modernity and as its very ending. Digitality severely alters the subject of critique and its spacio-temporal relations; it may even deprive the subject of its potentiality to be critical in the first place. The authors of this volume therefore examine the existence of critique in the digital, asking what it might be and in what settings it occurs.