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Toward an Aesthetics by Algorithms—Palestinian Cyber and Digital Spaces at the Threshold of (In)visibility

Cristiano, Fabio LU and Distretti, Emilio (2021) p.129-148
Abstract
This chapter explores how algorithms produce aesthetic forms and dystopian configurations across Palestinian cyber and digital spaces. Through surveillance and erasure, algorithms operate as infrastructures of (in)visibility across social media and digital maps. While serving the Israeli system of control by making Palestinian users and contents hyper-visible to surveillance, algorithms ultimately purport to delete Palestine from cyber and digital spaces. Acting at the threshold of the (in)visible, algorithms do not only enact surveillance, but they also inform the creation of an aesthetics of disappearance. In this light, this chapter problematizes the normative assumption equating invisibility—in the form of masking or disconnection—to... (More)
This chapter explores how algorithms produce aesthetic forms and dystopian configurations across Palestinian cyber and digital spaces. Through surveillance and erasure, algorithms operate as infrastructures of (in)visibility across social media and digital maps. While serving the Israeli system of control by making Palestinian users and contents hyper-visible to surveillance, algorithms ultimately purport to delete Palestine from cyber and digital spaces. Acting at the threshold of the (in)visible, algorithms do not only enact surveillance, but they also inform the creation of an aesthetics of disappearance. In this light, this chapter problematizes the normative assumption equating invisibility—in the form of masking or disconnection—to freedom and emancipation by introducing the concept of aesthetics by algorithms as new canon and form of ordering of the colonial space. (Less)
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Algorithms, Palestine, surveillance, Israel
host publication
The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self : A Savage Journey into the Heart of Digital Cultures - A Savage Journey into the Heart of Digital Cultures
editor
Della Ratta, Donatella ; Lovink, Geert ; Numerico, Teresa and Sarram, Peter
edition
1
pages
129 - 148
publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
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  • scopus:85164121040
ISBN
978-3-030-65497-9
978-3-030-65496-2
978-3-030-65499-3
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-65497-9
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English
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  author       = {{Cristiano, Fabio and Distretti, Emilio}},
  booktitle    = {{The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self : A Savage Journey into the Heart of Digital Cultures}},
  editor       = {{Della Ratta, Donatella and Lovink, Geert and Numerico, Teresa and Sarram, Peter}},
  isbn         = {{978-3-030-65497-9}},
  keywords     = {{Algorithms; Palestine; surveillance; Israel}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{129--148}},
  publisher    = {{Palgrave Macmillan}},
  title        = {{Toward an Aesthetics by Algorithms—Palestinian Cyber and Digital Spaces at the Threshold of (In)visibility}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65497-9}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/978-3-030-65497-9}},
  year         = {{2021}},
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