Datocracy

Datocracy is a compound neologism that embraces transhistorical liberations and reconfigurations of data, in its multiple perceptual-linguistic forms, into new value relations and systems of governance, democratic or otherwise. Datocracy evolves from...

Infomanticism

A self-reflexive Octoberesque essay on my concept of Infomanticism, a conjoining of information and Romanticism that reflects on and through our narcissistic mediation with sublime data....

Neither the sun nor death can be stared upon fixedly

In this paper, I examine the fetishisation of the database as determinant apparatus in constructing blind or random cultural hierarchies and relationships through a multiplier effect of surplus information (metadata) around cultural entities, demonst...