Data-Sense and Non-Sense
Data-Sense and Non-Sense
Data-driven knowledge is increasingly produced without regard to human cognition and sensibility, yet this conflagration of machinic non-sense also demands that we adapt to its rationality. Data-sense describes the popular expectation that a posthuman future is inevitable, compelling human subjects to orient their personal lives and truths in ways most compatible with machine learning and other regimes of data-driven analysis. The pursuit of the human nonconscious as a source of objective truth erodes the ground beneath the feet of the good liberal subject and concomitant ideals of agency, freedom, and self-determination.
Keywords: Machine learning, Data-sense, Posthuman, Quantified self, Nonconscious, Future
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