Abstract The notion of algorithmic imaginaries has been affirmed as an important heuristic to understand the functioning of social media algorithms through the account of users’ individual and collective experiences. Yet, the relationship between algorithmic imaginaries and users’ subjective engagement with social media, considering the personalised circulation of content on these platforms, demands further expansion. To fill this gap, the article introduces the notion of the algorithmic other , conceived as complementary to that of algorithmic imaginaries. Building on small-scale qualitative research on everyday online news consumption in Italy, we show how users engage in ‘othering’ the algorithm(s), which we describe as a process of counter-subjectivation that users enact in response to their own individuation as digital and data subjects. We explore the main dimensions of this process, arguing that it represents a by-product of the intense personalisation of their everyday user experience.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1057/s41286-023-00172-9
Zita Kārkla
{"title":"Bursting volcano, rushing river and heartbeat monitors: inscribing subjective experiences of childbirth in contemporary fiction","authors":"Zita Kārkla","doi":"10.1057/s41286-023-00172-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-023-00172-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46273,"journal":{"name":"Subjectivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135973166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-27DOI: 10.1057/s41286-023-00168-5
Leola Meynell, Mandy Morgan, Clifford van Ommen
Abstract In this article, we engage feminist theorisations of figurations as “performative images that can be inhabited” (Haraway 1997/2018) to trace some of the figures which are animating stories about climate change and reproduction in Global North contexts. We focus our reading on a handful of texts which circulate around the question of ‘Is it okay to have a child, given our climate conditions and futures?’ Throughout, we consider the relationship between figurations and our subjective becomings in response to environmental devastations. We critique and resist the hegemonic figuring of ‘the human subject’ as rational and unitary (Braidotti 2014), as this figure naturalises the Western social power relations of advanced capitalism, population control and human exceptionalism. Seeking multiplicity, we look for figures and subjective openings which enable us to become response-able to the pain of ecological worlds dying around us (Haraway 2016), including from our disciplinary location of psychology.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-27DOI: 10.1057/s41286-023-00170-x
Carolyn Pedwell
Abstract What happens when intuition becomes algorithmic? This article explores how approaching intuition as recursively trained sheds light on what is at stake affectively, politically, and ethically in the entanglements of sensorial, cognitive, computational and corporate processes and (infra)structures that characterise algorithmic life. Bringing affect theory and speculative philosophies to bear on computational histories and cultures, I tease out the continuing implications of post-war efforts to make intuition a measurable and indexable mode of anticipatory knowledge. If digital computing pioneers tended to elide the more ambivalent implications of quantifying intuition, this article asks what computational myths are at play in current accounts of machine learning-enabled sensing, thinking, and speculating and what complexities or chaos are disavowed. I argue that an understanding of more-than-human intuition which grapples meaningfully with the indeterminacy central to digitally mediated social life must recognise that visceral response is recursively trained in multiple ways with diverse, and often contradictory, effects.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1057/s41286-023-00169-4
Daphne Beers, Martin Klepper
{"title":"Self-optimization and self-help: mediating subject formations in twentieth-century mass cultures","authors":"Daphne Beers, Martin Klepper","doi":"10.1057/s41286-023-00169-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-023-00169-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46273,"journal":{"name":"Subjectivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45464762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1057/s41286-023-00163-w
Katharina Vester
{"title":"“How dare you hoard fat when our nation needs it?”: Weight loss advice and female citizenship during World War I and the 1920s","authors":"Katharina Vester","doi":"10.1057/s41286-023-00163-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-023-00163-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46273,"journal":{"name":"Subjectivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43492507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1057/s41286-023-00165-8
Alexandra Vrhel
{"title":"Somatic personhood and the dilemma of authenticity in ADHD subjectivity","authors":"Alexandra Vrhel","doi":"10.1057/s41286-023-00165-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-023-00165-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46273,"journal":{"name":"Subjectivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134994858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-08DOI: 10.1057/s41286-023-00164-9
James Dorson
{"title":"Caveman, genius, artist, entrepreneur: success and self-realization from literary naturalism to advice literature","authors":"James Dorson","doi":"10.1057/s41286-023-00164-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-023-00164-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46273,"journal":{"name":"Subjectivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49669548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1057/s41286-023-00166-7
J. DeLuca, Jacob J. Bustad
{"title":"Good body, good health, and the good mother habitus","authors":"J. DeLuca, Jacob J. Bustad","doi":"10.1057/s41286-023-00166-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-023-00166-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46273,"journal":{"name":"Subjectivity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43453720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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