Roberto Simanowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1192853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberto Simanowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Simanowski |
| SIGNATURE | SIMANOWSKI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | (educator), Brown University, Box 1979, Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A.. |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4745-1557 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Literature and digital media
In this keynote lecture, Roberto Simanowski combines close reading of single works with a media-ontological reading of digital art and digital literature. The folowing works are analysed in detail: Romy Achituv and Camille Utterback’s Text Rain (1999); Bit.Fall (2006) by Julius Popp; Still Standing by Jason Lewis (2005); and Caleb Larsen's The Complete Works of W.S. (2007). The analyses suggest that, while remaining essentially a textual medium, …
On Self-Construction in Social Media
Social networks, especially Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram, are so complex that Mark Zuckerberg famously and worryingly confessed in his hearings to US lawmakers in April 2018 that he and his staff have only now started to understand how “bad actors” may have “misused” Facebook’s system. There are many ways to look at Facebook and to discuss its ramifications for contemporary culture. The most common approach is a socioeconomic one that ad…
On the Ethics of Algorithmic Intelligence
On the Ethics of Algorithmic Intelligence Roberto Simanowski (bio) Translated by Michel Brodmer and Jefferson Chase "perhaps the new intelligence will worship its creators, perhaps it will keep us as pets, or perhaps it will erase us. We simply don't know. What is certain is that if my arguments are correct we will lose control over evolution" (Gumbrecht 2018, 227). Those are the words of 21-yearold Sam Ginn, a student of computer science and com…
The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas
Provocative takes on cyberbullshit, smartphone zombies, instant gratification, the traffic school of the information highway, and other philosophical concerns of the Internet age. In The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas, Roberto Simanowski wonders if we are on the brink of a society that views social, political, and ethical challenges as technological problems that can be fixed with the right algorithm, the best data, or the fastest com…
Facebook Society
Waste
Self-Narratives on Social Networks
This article focuses on self-narratives and identity construction in the context of social networking sites (SNSs) by discussing the findings of a research project that had at its core the practice-based module “Facebook and Autobiography: How We Narrate Ourselves on Social Networks,” which we designed and taught at a major Hong Kong university. With students as participants, we explored how the infrastructure of Facebook affects the processes of…
Instant Selves
Self-presentation on social network sites is often discussed either positively for its promotion of transparency and sharing or negatively for its encouragement of narcissism and self-branding. The present article takes into account the "torture of now-time," that is, the horror vacui of the postmodern subject, and reads the excessive sharing of every moment as a flight from the self and toward the "homeland" of the network. With a nod to Paul Ri…
Digital Anthropophagy
This paper discusses the incorporation of text within interactive installations as an expression of cultural anthropophagy. This “consumption” is carried out not by displacing the text (i.e. replacing it with images) but by transforming text into image, sound or action, or into a post-alphabetic object (i.e. depriving the text of its linguistic value). As shown in detailed examples, the de-semanticization of text turns words into ornament, while …
Literaturwissenschaft und neue Medien
Die Verwaltung des Abenteuers
Das Glück des Genetivs und die Zerstreuung. Christian August Vulpius’ Räuberroman Rinaldo Rinaldini
Article Das Glück des Genetivs und die Zerstreuung. Christian August Vulpius’ Räuberroman Rinaldo Rinaldini was published on January 1, 1999 in the journal Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (volume 24, issue 1)
Self-Narratives on Social Networks
This article focuses on self-narratives and identity construction in the context of social networking sites (SNSs) by discussing the findings of a research project that had at its core the practice-based module “Facebook and Autobiography: How We Narrate Ourselves on Social Networks,” which we designed and taught at a major Hong Kong university. With students as participants, we explored how the infrastructure of Facebook affects the processes of…
Instant Selves
Self-presentation on social network sites is often discussed either positively for its promotion of transparency and sharing or negatively for its encouragement of narcissism and self-branding. The present article takes into account the "torture of now-time," that is, the horror vacui of the postmodern subject, and reads the excessive sharing of every moment as a flight from the self and toward the "homeland" of the network. With a nod to Paul Ri…
On Self-Construction in Social Media
Social networks, especially Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram, are so complex that Mark Zuckerberg famously and worryingly confessed in his hearings to US lawmakers in April 2018 that he and his staff have only now started to understand how “bad actors” may have “misused” Facebook’s system. There are many ways to look at Facebook and to discuss its ramifications for contemporary culture. The most common approach is a socioeconomic one that ad…
Die Verwaltung des Abenteuers
Das Glück des Genetivs und die Zerstreuung. Christian August Vulpius’ Räuberroman Rinaldo Rinaldini
Article Das Glück des Genetivs und die Zerstreuung. Christian August Vulpius’ Räuberroman Rinaldo Rinaldini was published on January 1, 1999 in the journal Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (volume 24, issue 1)
Literaturwissenschaft und neue Medien
Digital Anthropophagy
This paper discusses the incorporation of text within interactive installations as an expression of cultural anthropophagy. This “consumption” is carried out not by displacing the text (i.e. replacing it with images) but by transforming text into image, sound or action, or into a post-alphabetic object (i.e. depriving the text of its linguistic value). As shown in detailed examples, the de-semanticization of text turns words into ornament, while …
Instant Selves
Self-presentation on social network sites is often discussed either positively for its promotion of transparency and sharing or negatively for its encouragement of narcissism and self-branding. The present article takes into account the "torture of now-time," that is, the horror vacui of the postmodern subject, and reads the excessive sharing of every moment as a flight from the self and toward the "homeland" of the network. With a nod to Paul Ri…
The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas
Provocative takes on cyberbullshit, smartphone zombies, instant gratification, the traffic school of the information highway, and other philosophical concerns of the Internet age. In The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas, Roberto Simanowski wonders if we are on the brink of a society that views social, political, and ethical challenges as technological problems that can be fixed with the right algorithm, the best data, or the fastest com…
Facebook Society
Waste
Self-Narratives on Social Networks
This article focuses on self-narratives and identity construction in the context of social networking sites (SNSs) by discussing the findings of a research project that had at its core the practice-based module “Facebook and Autobiography: How We Narrate Ourselves on Social Networks,” which we designed and taught at a major Hong Kong university. With students as participants, we explored how the infrastructure of Facebook affects the processes of…
On Self-Construction in Social Media
Social networks, especially Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram, are so complex that Mark Zuckerberg famously and worryingly confessed in his hearings to US lawmakers in April 2018 that he and his staff have only now started to understand how “bad actors” may have “misused” Facebook’s system. There are many ways to look at Facebook and to discuss its ramifications for contemporary culture. The most common approach is a socioeconomic one that ad…
On the Ethics of Algorithmic Intelligence
On the Ethics of Algorithmic Intelligence Roberto Simanowski (bio) Translated by Michel Brodmer and Jefferson Chase "perhaps the new intelligence will worship its creators, perhaps it will keep us as pets, or perhaps it will erase us. We simply don't know. What is certain is that if my arguments are correct we will lose control over evolution" (Gumbrecht 2018, 227). Those are the words of 21-yearold Sam Ginn, a student of computer science and com…
Literature and digital media
In this keynote lecture, Roberto Simanowski combines close reading of single works with a media-ontological reading of digital art and digital literature. The folowing works are analysed in detail: Romy Achituv and Camille Utterback’s Text Rain (1999); Bit.Fall (2006) by Julius Popp; Still Standing by Jason Lewis (2005); and Caleb Larsen's The Complete Works of W.S. (2007). The analyses suggest that, while remaining essentially a textual medium, …
Art (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · World Wide Web (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social media (3 works)