Which Subject for the Digital?: A Critique of Digitalization’s Roots in (Neuro)Psychologization

Authors : Jan DE VOS

Pages : 20-34

Doi:10.32739/etkilesim.2018.2.26

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Publication Date : 2018-10-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This paper will not be about understanding digital culture or digital insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(inter); subjectivity with the help of insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(neuro);psychology. Rather, it will look critically into how insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(neuro);psychological models are used precisely in modelling our avatars and smart environments, today’s placeholders of insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(inter);subjectivity. So instead of “Your brain on digital: How digitalization is shaping our brains”, I choose for another approach informed by critical theory and psychoanalytic critique: “How neuropsychological models shape digitality”. Hence, if anything, the digitalization of insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(inter);subjectivity rather than be assessed with insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(neuro); psychology should be connected to the psychologization and neurologization of insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(inter);subjectivity. From here the key question becomes, if current insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(neuro); psychological models allow for a technology with limited emancipatory potential insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(in which datafication equals the capitalist exploitation of intersubjectivity);, would then a different psychology open up to something different? Hence, would the following be a viable question: which subject for the digital?
Keywords : digital inter, subjectivity neuro, psychology, neurologization, psychologization