Index

Contents 

 

Introduction: The Uses and Kinds of Subjects 1 

Digital Subjects Operate at a Distance ~ Subject, Person, Self, and Subjectivity ~ Legal Fictive Person and Fictional Persona ~ Different Kinds and Uses of Abstraction ~ Ideal as Mathematical Projection, Inhabiting Abstractions Through Desire ~ The Body as a Reality Setting for Subjects ~ Some 

Shortcuts Through the Chapters  

 

1. Subject at a Distance and the Politics of Knowing 35 

What Kinds of Digital Subjects Are There? ~ Probability Distributions and Predicted Subjects as Patterns ~ Indexical Capacities of Data ~ An Index, Icon, or Diagram ~ Indexicality Comes from Elsewhere ~ Distance in the Digital Subject ~ The Modern Subject at a Distance from Oneself ~ Transcendental Subjects and Ideal Objects of Calculus ~ Asking About the Potential of Abstract Subjects ~ Subjects’ 

Useful Uselessness: Lots of Abstractions ~ Conundrums 

 

2. Ideals: Subjects Desire Abstractions 83 

Correlating Patterns and Profiling the Ideal Subject ~ Ideal as Abstraction: How to Desire a Top Percentile ~ Becoming Oneself: Desire to Be Known by Computation ~ Recognizability: Artificial Intelligence as Subjective and Objective Truth-­ Teller ~ Bayesian Prediction in the Quest for Truths ~ The Hegelian Mutual Realization of Subject and  World ~ Gripping Subjects 

 

3. Struggles for Realities 141 

Singular Identity, Ground Truthing, Making the “Really True” ~ Nature Versus Biometrics: Data-­ Stitching and Aligning ~ Shaping Artificial Intelligence to Orchestrate a “Real World” ~ The Shifting Sands of New Realities 

 

Acknowledgments 181 

Notes 185 

Index 215 

 

 

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