Door: Shu Lea Cheang
“Exploring the relationship between the prison regime and societal norms, Cheang’s work traces the transformation of confinement and surveillance technologies within digital culture. Her work brings the Prigioni into the contemporary context of global Internet and artificial intelligence (AI), warfare robotic technologies, and genetic engineering, as well as bio and chemical technologies applied to the modification of reproductive, cognitive, and psychological processes. These technologies are inducing a paradigm shift that is comparable only to what took place with the invention of the printing press and colonization in the fifteenth century. We are transitioning from a society where surplus value was extracted mostly from labor (human and nonhuman) to a society where machines will undertake not only most work tasks but will control and decide when, how, and what will be produced: We are passing from the Gutenberg times of writing and reading into a society of flickering signs; from an analogical and text-based culture into a digital electronic landscape of algorithms. This is a transformation of relations between power, knowledge, and pleasure, which in turn is determining new forms of subjectivity and defining new forms of subjection and resistance.”
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