Tools for Navigating AI-Integrated Subjectivity
Research Resources 2026BODY-DESIGN-SYSTEMS
>>Cheat Sheet<<
Assetisation – Turning bodies, identities, data or desire into economic assets. (Rosamond, 2023)
Bodywork – The labour of shaping and managing the body within platform systems and neoliberal economies. (Hakim, 2018)
Data Capitalism – Turning human activity and data into profit-generating resources. (Couldry & Mejias, 2019)
Decomputing – Resisting or reducing computational mediation and optimisation. (McQuillan, 2023)
EdgeRank Algorithm – A system for sorting and editing what content users see in their feeds. (Bucher, 2012)
Genetics & Memetics – How biological and cultural traits are inherited and reproduced. (Dawkins, 1976)
Instrumentarian Power – Shaping and modifying behaviour through data collection and algorithmic monitoring. (Zuboff, 2019)
Libertarian Paternalism – Choice architecture to influence behaviour while presenting it as freedom. (Thaler & Sunstein, 2008)
Panopticon – Surveillance that encourages people to regulate themselves. (Bentham, 1791, and Foucault, 1977)
Platformisation – How social life becomes organised through digital platforms. (Nieborg & Poell, 2018)
Spornosexual – A hyper-muscular masculine ideal shaped by sport, porn and social media. (Simpson, 2011, and Hakim, 2018)
Synopticon – The many watching and emulating the few. (Mathiesen, 1997)
Uncanny Valley – The unsettling feeling produced when a human-like figure appears almost, but not entirely, human. (Mori, 1970)
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