The app-object economy: We’re all remix artists now

Authors

  • Paul Caplan GSM London

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v20i5.5899

Keywords:

object-oriented ontology, software, practice-research, app

Abstract

Maps and messages, notes and news, photography and fitness, streams and shopping: the litany of apps through which we live our mobile data lives and through which state and corporate agents survey our data positions, set in motion a form of everyday remix. This affective cultural practice choreographed between ‘us’ and ‘them’ is deeply governmental, establishing subject positions and relationships. Drawing on the work of Timothy Morton, Levi Bryant, Ian Bogost and Graham Harman, this paper argues that this governmental remix mesh is best addressed as a matter of material objects and hyperobjects rather than as an assemblage or network.

Author Biography

Paul Caplan, GSM London

Head of Department, Digital Technology & Computing

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Published

2015-05-10

How to Cite

Caplan, P. (2015). The app-object economy: We’re all remix artists now. First Monday, 20(5). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v20i5.5899

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