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http://dx.doi.org/10.17703/JCCT.2022.8.3.143

Signifying Practices of Technoculture in the age of Data Capitalism: Cultural and Political Alternative after the Financial Crisis of 2008  

Lim, Shan (Dept. of Curatorial Studies, Dongduk Women's University)
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The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology / v.8, no.3, 2022 , pp. 143-148 More about this Journal
Abstract
The subject of this paper is the practical examples of technoculture that critically thinks network technology, a strong material foundation in the era of data capitalism in the 21st century, and appropriates its socio-cultural metaphor as an artistic potential. In order to analyze its alternatives and the meaning of cultural politics, this paper examines the properties and influence of data capitalism after the 2008 global financial crisis, and the cultural and artistic context formed by its reaction. The first case considered in this paper, Furtherfield's workshop, provided a useful example of how citizens can participate in social change through learning and education in which art and technology are interrelated. The second case, Greek hackerspace HSGR, developed network technology as a tool to overcome the crisis by proposing a new progressive cultural commons due to Greece's financial crisis caused by the global financial crisis and a decrease in the state's creative support. The third case, Paolo Cirio's project, promoted a critical citizenship towards the state and community systems as dominant types of social governance. These technoculture cases can be evaluated as efforts to combine and rediscover progressive political ideology and its artistic realization tradition in the context of cultural politics, paying attention to the possibility of signifying practices of network technology that dominates the contemporary economic system.
Keywords
Global Financial Crisis; Data Capitalism; Paolo Cirio; Hackerspace; Furtherfield;
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