Haunted Data

Affect, Transmedia, Weird Science

Lisa Blackman (Goldsmiths College, University of London, London)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
24 January 2019

Media studies; Feminism & feminist theory; Philosophy of science; Computing & IT

Haunted Data explores the concepts that are at work in our complex relationships with data. Our engagement with data – big or small – is never as simplistic or straightforward as might first appear. Indeed, Blackman argues that our relationship with data is haunted with errors, dead ends, ghostly figures, and misunderstandings that challenge core assumptions about the nature of thought, consciousness, mind, cognition, affect, communication, control and rationality, both human and non-human.

Using contemporary controversies from ‘weird science’ including the field of priming and its uncanny relations to animal telepathy, as well as artificial intelligences and their curious relation to psychic research (‘clairvoyant computers’), Blackman shows how some of the current crises in science in these areas reveal more than scientists are willing or even able to acknowledge. In addition to proposing a new theory of how we might engage with data, Haunted Data also provides a nuanced survey of the historical context to contemporary debates, going back to the 19th Century origins of modern computation and science to explain the ubiquity and oddness of our data relations.

Drawing from radical philosophies of science, feminist science studies, queer theory, cultural studies, and the field of affect studies, the book develops a manifesto for how artists, philosophers and scientists might engage creatively and critically with science within the context of digital communication.

By: Lisa Blackman (Goldsmiths College University of London London)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781350047044
ISBN 10: 135004704X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 24 January 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lisa Blackman is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. This is her fifth book. Previous books include Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation (2012).

Reviews for Haunted Data: Affect, Transmedia, Weird Science

Be prepared to be haunted in the best way possible: spooked over and over again by joy and wonder. Lisa Blackman tells stories of the ghosts of sciences past, present, and future, stories that will shake affect studies to its bones. -- Gregory J. Seigworth, Professor of Communication Studies, Millersville University, USA