Título: | DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE CLOUD: SOVEREIGNTY AMIDST THE VIRTUALITIES OF MODERN COMPUTATION | ||||||||||||
Autor: |
RAFAEL FELGUEIRAS ROLO |
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Colaborador(es): |
BETHANIA DE ALBUQUERQUE ASSY - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 15/MAR/2021 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||
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[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=51848&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=51848&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.51848 | ||||||||||||
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The thesis problematizes the role of digital media in the (con)formation of
contemporary geopolitics, especially with regard to the concepts of sovereignty and
emancipation. Understood as a nomic structure, digital media operates as an active
agent in the partition of space and in the regulation of fluxes of forces, matter, form
and information. Computation and Internet are responsible for the design and
conformation both of Earth s physical layer, as well as of the virtual space of the
Net, the so-called Cloud. A radical materialism operates between the
disintegration of the analogical principle into the digital, through the machinic
axioms of protocols, until it reaches the semantical over-codification of the
platform. It is only then that the nomos of the cloud assumes its most visible form.
This nomos draws a non-Euclidean geometry (i.e., a fractal), one that defies the
causal logic and develops new dimensions of World-design. In it, the archive stops
functioning as a mere representation of the world, for the very world becomes an
archive. The ontological and epistemological levels of analysis of such a nomic
order are both conditioned by a political dimension. Digital media weaves a
diagram that establishes new regimes of visibility (interface, expression) and
enunciation (addressability, content). A diagram before which, to be or to know,
either in the realm of Computation in general or on the Internet, means to be
subjugated by the idiosyncratic technical-technological a priori at hand. A new
form of agency of bodies and signs is implied. New media disintegrates subjective
and objective frontiers commonly associated with the sovereign condition
traditionally conceived as a trait native to the Nation-State. It does this by instituting
a new topology/topography of bodies and agencies in the place of what existed
before it. The new mediatic era unfolds the territory in a hyperbolic dimension,
overlapping different sovereignties over a specific transmission or circuit. The
mediatic channel operates as a substratum over which power might exert itself or
be exerted, while, at the same time, forfeiting any human condition and, what is
even more, setting aside every subjective presupposition. The thesis poses the
question about how to define the sovereign condition in the context of the new
mediatic era and the collapse of the Westphalian model of the Nation-State.
Connected to the problem regarding sovereignty, the thesis asks how it is possible
to establish a (dia)grammatic of emancipation struggles in this context. Following
the recent events, it is assumed that the new mediatic era consists of two different
crossings. The first one would be the overcoming of the analogical by the digital,
while the second would be the transition from the a-signifying bit to the semantics
of interfacial and addressable regimes. These two events are consummated in the
concept of the platform, understood as a rigid diagram in which an asymmetric
relation between user and system takes place. According to this asymmetrical
relationship, the user is not capable of accessing the arcanum of the source-code.
The entrails of the system are protected from the direct action of an ordinary User.
Only after the recognition of this asymmetry, can the concepts of sovereignty and
emancipation be adequately analysed. While sovereignty is a priori understood as
the condition of that which (human or otherwise) is capable of accessing the
potential of the source-code, emancipation in the realm of the new media depends
on the revindication of such a sovereign condition.
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