Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age

Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age

Mark Jarzombek

Rethinking the philosophical and anthropological basis of our ontology

110 Pages, 5 x 7 in

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Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age

Series: Forerunners: Ideas First

Mark Jarzombek

ISBN: 9781517901837

Publication date: August 1st, 2016

110 Pages

7 x 5

"Provides a brief, yet stylistically ironic and incisive interrogation into how recent iterations of post- or inhumanist theory have found a strange bedfellow in the rhetorical boosterism that accompanies the alleged affordances of digital technologies and big data."—Boundary 2


Once, humans were what they believed. Now, the modern person is determined by data exhaust—an invisible anthropocentric ether of ones and zeros that is a product of our digitally monitored age. Author Mark Jarzombek argues that the world has become redesigned to fuse the algorithmic with the ontological, and the discussion of ontology must be updated to rethink the question of Being. In Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age, Jarzombek provocatively studies the new interrelationship between human and algorithm.

Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Mark Jarzombek is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been teaching since 1995. He specializes in the history and theory of architecture.