{"id":491,"date":"2016-02-02T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T10:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lab.wrkshp.fi\/huopaniemi\/?p=491"},"modified":"2018-01-10T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T13:17:43","slug":"3-8-frag-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/3-8-frag-28\/","title":{"rendered":"3.8 Fragment 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em>3.8<\/em> Fragment 28<\/h1>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style><div id=\"gallery-1\" class=\"gallery galleryid-491 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large\"><dl class=\"gallery-item\"><dt class=\"gallery-icon landscape\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fragment-28-1024x640.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fragment-28-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fragment-28-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fragment-28-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class=\"wp-caption-text gallery-caption\" id=\"gallery-1-7333\">\n\t\t\t\tFragment 28\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n\n<p>According to Hayles&rsquo;s hypothesis, technogenetic change occurs through&nbsp;technogenetic spirals, the intensification of the interlacing of humans and technologies. In <a href=\"http:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fragment-28.jpg\">fragment 28<\/a>, DAR argues that in this study, technogenic change&mdash;or <em>algorithmic adaptation<\/em>, as I propose to call it&mdash;manifests itself as a normalization of bi- or multilingualism. In other words, as a result of the research process, writing in one language becomes the&nbsp;exception, characterized by an experience of lack&nbsp;and the anticipation of translation.<\/p>\n<p>In Hayles, technogenesis is related&nbsp;to anthropogenesis, i.e. hominization, the process of becoming human&mdash;recalling Bernard Stiegler&rsquo;s assertion that anthropogenesis is a form of technogenesis (<a class=\"glossaryLink cmtt_note-3-8en\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;In &amp;quot;Relational Ecology and the Digital Pharmakon,&rdquo; Stiegler touches on the impications of digital media for knowledge production: &amp;quot;If anthropogenesis is a technogenesis, with the digital this process arrives at a new stage where the techno-logic of knowledge as such must become central both to the reconsideration of the history of established knowledge in the light of the contemporary moment and to&amp;lt;em&amp;gt; the interrogation of the new forms of knowledge that digitisation brings forth&amp;lt;\/em&amp;gt;&rdquo; (Stiegler 2012EN, 15&ndash;16, emphasis added).&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/glossary\/1-2en1\/\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">3.8EN1<\/a>). Hayles refers to the prevailing consensus among paleoanthropologists that human development is inextricably linked to the development and spread&nbsp;of tools. Coevolution of this kind, involving non-digital tools, can be considered a primary form of technogenesis, in contrast to contemporary technogenesis occurring through digital media.<\/p>\n<p>Hayles points to bipedalism as an example of &ldquo;continuous reciprocal causation&rdquo; (Clark according to <a class=\"glossaryLink cmtt_refer-fi cmtt_refer-en\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Hayles, N. Katherine. 2012.&nbsp;&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis.&amp;lt;\/em&amp;gt; Chicago &amp;amp;amp;&nbsp;London: The University of Chicago Press.&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/glossary\/hayles-2012\/\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Hayles 2012<\/a>, 10), in which rising onto two feet allows the human species to literally grasp new tools, which in turn further accelerates the development of bipedalism. Once an individual has access to new tools, the desire to use them again seems to drive them to modify their behavior, to adapt to the new situation. In this (literally) upward bound recursive development, adopting new tools generates &ldquo;strong adaptive advantages&rdquo; that sustain the process of coevolution. (Hayles 2012, 10)<\/p>\n<h3>Translation as Internalized Prosthesis<\/h3>\n<p>Building on&nbsp;these general observations, we can regard LW and WTCST as forms of writing that have developed from earlier forms in an evolutionary process, the purpose of which has been to better adapt to our new environments.&nbsp;Andy Clark&rsquo;s idea of &ldquo;continuous reciprocal causation&rdquo; would, in this case, materialize&nbsp;in the ways in which we, as a writing ensemble consisting of human and non-human agents, are capable of carrying out tasks that were not possible&mdash;at least not on this scale&mdash;before the introduction of the technics we currently use. As described in <a href=\"http:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/frag\/26\/\">3.6<\/a>, my claim&nbsp;is that the possibility of parallel writing and enquiry in two different languages is the &ldquo;adaptive advantage&rdquo; or new capacity that is thus produced. So, rather than bipedalism, bi- or multilingualism is the evolutionary leap that is at the core of this theory.<\/p>\n<p>In WTCST, the adaptive change only really becomes tangible when one refrains from the activity that has caused it, that is,&nbsp;from algorithmic self-translation. This is how I understand <a href=\"http:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fragment-28.jpg\">fragment 28<\/a>. The changes caused by our engagement with digital media seem to be most palpable when systems are shut down, when we are disconnected from our technical ensembles (see <a href=\"http:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/frag\/12\/\">1.12<\/a> and <a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;When my computer goes down or my Internet connection fails, I feel lost, disoriented, unable to work&mdash;in fact, I feel as if my hands have been amputated (perhaps recalling Marshall McLuhan&amp;#039;s claim that media function as prostheses). Such feelings, which are widespread, constitute nothing less than a change in worldview. (Hayles 2012, 2)&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/glossary\/adapted-from-hayles-passage-10\/\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">adapted from Hayles passage 10<\/a>). The anticipation of or longing for translation described by DAR seems to reinforce this perception. When translation has become an experiential norm, an internalized prosthesis, only a new adaptation can restore us to a state where single-language writing is experienced as&nbsp;something other than&nbsp;amputation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"viitteet\">\n<h5>Note<\/h5>\n<p>3.8EN1<br>\nIn &ldquo;Relational Ecology and the Digital Pharmakon,&rdquo; Stiegler touches on the impications of digital media for knowledge production: &ldquo;If anthropogenesis is a technogenesis, with the digital this process arrives at a new stage where the techno-logic of knowledge as such must become central both to the reconsideration of the history of established knowledge in the light of the contemporary moment and to<em> the interrogation of the new forms of knowledge that digitisation brings forth<\/em>&rdquo; (<a class=\"glossaryLink cmtt_refer-en\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Stiegler, Bernard. 2012.&nbsp;&amp;quot;Relational Ecology and the Digital Pharmakon.&rdquo; &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Culture Machine&amp;lt;\/em&amp;gt; volume 13 (2012): 1&ndash;19.&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/glossary\/stiegler-2012en\/\" data-mobile-support=\"0\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Stiegler 2012EN<\/a>, 15&ndash;16, emphasis added).<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3.8 Fragment 28 According to Hayles\u2019s hypothesis, technogenetic change occurs through\u00a0technogenetic spirals, the intensification of the interlacing of humans and technologies. In fragment 28, DAR argues that in this study, technogenic change\u2014or algorithmic adaptation, as I propose to call it\u2014manifests itself as a normalization of bi- or multilingualism. In other words, as a result of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":71,"href":"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20356,"href":"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/20356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actascenica.teak.fi\/huopaniemi-otso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}