Annie Ring
Biographic Data
| ID | 3730898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annie Ring |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annie |
| FAMILY NAME | Ring |
| SIGNATURE | RING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7813-3354 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Einen Film Drehen’
This article analyses the ‘Gestus’ of turning in films by Harun Farocki and Christian Petzold, in light of a central claim of Andrew Webber's esteemed theoretical work on film: that film has the power to uncover unconscious processes through which subjects come into being and are made operational for political regimes. Farocki's Leben–BRD (1990) presents a user guide to life in West Germany at the moment of unification, looping through training s…
Data that Matter
This article argues that 'the digital' and 'big data' are metaphors of obfuscation, which are used to screen the real effects of technologies on lived experiences and the planet. Now that technology consumers are connected 24/7 to the Internet (or 'Web'), their data can be gathered and monetized on a vast scale. The new data economies and AI technologies that have emerged as a result require careful evaluation regarding their effects on bodies, e…
Uncertain Archives
Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. This groundbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data and the archives they accrue, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines analyze concepts relevant to critical studies of big data, arranged glossary style—from abuse and aggregate to visualizatio…
The Politics of ‘Primary Rejection’ in Herman Melville's Bartleby and Hito Steyerl's How Not to Be Seen
In this article I analyse the primary rejections depicted in Herman Melville's Urtext on the withdrawal of complicity, Bartleby (1853), and Hito Steyerl's video installation How Not to be Seen (2013), which experiments with a Bartleby‐like withdrawal from surveillance through becoming illegible to machine vision. My focus is on the potential of primary rejection to reveal the disavowed content of racist violence foundational to the regimes (finan…
Uncertain Archives
From global search engines to local smart cities, from public health monitoring to personal self-tracking technologies, digital technologies continuously capture, process, and archive social, material, and affective information in the form of big data. Although the use of big data emerged from the human desire to acquire more knowledge and master more information and to eliminate human error in large-scale information management, it has become cl…
System Error
This article sets itself against the bulk of scholarship on surveillance, which is characterized by emphasis either on Michel Foucault’s analysis of the Panopticon, or on Gilles Deleuze’s too-brief “Postscript on the Societies of Control.” In contrast to these dominant critical paradigms, the article recuperates a mode of governmentality proposed in Foucault’s last lectures on “Security,” in order to draw out the latent instabilities that beset c…
The (W)hole in the Archive
This article turns its attention to the accounts that Foucault and Derrida made following their encounters with archives, and it relates these accounts to the files of the former East German secret police. Derrida and Foucault located differing qualities of authority in the archives that they consulted, yet they are shown here to converge around a problem of non-integrity in the structuration of the archive as supposed guarantor of epistemologica…
Kerstin Hensel's Insecure Borders
Kerstin Hensel's poetics of exaggeration, her representations of excess and the grotesque have been interpreted as highlighting practices of violence and marginalisation. In this article I consider Hensel's engagement in her 1994 novella, Tanz am Kanal , with margins and borders – subjective, topographical and aesthetic. I argue that her portrayal of Gabriela von Haßlau's excessive victimhood articulates a ‘topography’ of the traumatised subject,…
Eine Bindung durch Hass’
This article deals with the case of collaboration portrayed in Monika Maron's novel Stille Zeile Sechs . Her protagonist, Rosalind Polkowski, has been celebrated as resisting the disciplinary state structures represented by her employer, former SED Party functionary Herbert Beerenbaum. Meanwhile the text's narrative structure and a curious mimetic function in the heroine's behaviour appear to encourage a psychoanalytical reading: Polkowski as tra…
Uncertain Archives
From global search engines to local smart cities, from public health monitoring to personal self-tracking technologies, digital technologies continuously capture, process, and archive social, material, and affective information in the form of big data. Although the use of big data emerged from the human desire to acquire more knowledge and master more information and to eliminate human error in large-scale information management, it has become cl…
The Politics of ‘Primary Rejection’ in Herman Melville's Bartleby and Hito Steyerl's How Not to Be Seen
In this article I analyse the primary rejections depicted in Herman Melville's Urtext on the withdrawal of complicity, Bartleby (1853), and Hito Steyerl's video installation How Not to be Seen (2013), which experiments with a Bartleby‐like withdrawal from surveillance through becoming illegible to machine vision. My focus is on the potential of primary rejection to reveal the disavowed content of racist violence foundational to the regimes (finan…
System Error
This article sets itself against the bulk of scholarship on surveillance, which is characterized by emphasis either on Michel Foucault’s analysis of the Panopticon, or on Gilles Deleuze’s too-brief “Postscript on the Societies of Control.” In contrast to these dominant critical paradigms, the article recuperates a mode of governmentality proposed in Foucault’s last lectures on “Security,” in order to draw out the latent instabilities that beset c…
The (W)hole in the Archive
This article turns its attention to the accounts that Foucault and Derrida made following their encounters with archives, and it relates these accounts to the files of the former East German secret police. Derrida and Foucault located differing qualities of authority in the archives that they consulted, yet they are shown here to converge around a problem of non-integrity in the structuration of the archive as supposed guarantor of epistemologica…
Kerstin Hensel's Insecure Borders
Kerstin Hensel's poetics of exaggeration, her representations of excess and the grotesque have been interpreted as highlighting practices of violence and marginalisation. In this article I consider Hensel's engagement in her 1994 novella, Tanz am Kanal , with margins and borders – subjective, topographical and aesthetic. I argue that her portrayal of Gabriela von Haßlau's excessive victimhood articulates a ‘topography’ of the traumatised subject,…
Eine Bindung durch Hass’
This article deals with the case of collaboration portrayed in Monika Maron's novel Stille Zeile Sechs . Her protagonist, Rosalind Polkowski, has been celebrated as resisting the disciplinary state structures represented by her employer, former SED Party functionary Herbert Beerenbaum. Meanwhile the text's narrative structure and a curious mimetic function in the heroine's behaviour appear to encourage a psychoanalytical reading: Polkowski as tra…
The (W)hole in the Archive
This article turns its attention to the accounts that Foucault and Derrida made following their encounters with archives, and it relates these accounts to the files of the former East German secret police. Derrida and Foucault located differing qualities of authority in the archives that they consulted, yet they are shown here to converge around a problem of non-integrity in the structuration of the archive as supposed guarantor of epistemologica…
System Error
This article sets itself against the bulk of scholarship on surveillance, which is characterized by emphasis either on Michel Foucault’s analysis of the Panopticon, or on Gilles Deleuze’s too-brief “Postscript on the Societies of Control.” In contrast to these dominant critical paradigms, the article recuperates a mode of governmentality proposed in Foucault’s last lectures on “Security,” in order to draw out the latent instabilities that beset c…
Uncertain Archives
From global search engines to local smart cities, from public health monitoring to personal self-tracking technologies, digital technologies continuously capture, process, and archive social, material, and affective information in the form of big data. Although the use of big data emerged from the human desire to acquire more knowledge and master more information and to eliminate human error in large-scale information management, it has become cl…
Uncertain Archives
Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. This groundbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data and the archives they accrue, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines analyze concepts relevant to critical studies of big data, arranged glossary style—from abuse and aggregate to visualizatio…
The Politics of ‘Primary Rejection’ in Herman Melville's Bartleby and Hito Steyerl's How Not to Be Seen
In this article I analyse the primary rejections depicted in Herman Melville's Urtext on the withdrawal of complicity, Bartleby (1853), and Hito Steyerl's video installation How Not to be Seen (2013), which experiments with a Bartleby‐like withdrawal from surveillance through becoming illegible to machine vision. My focus is on the potential of primary rejection to reveal the disavowed content of racist violence foundational to the regimes (finan…
Data that Matter
This article argues that 'the digital' and 'big data' are metaphors of obfuscation, which are used to screen the real effects of technologies on lived experiences and the planet. Now that technology consumers are connected 24/7 to the Internet (or 'Web'), their data can be gathered and monetized on a vast scale. The new data economies and AI technologies that have emerged as a result require careful evaluation regarding their effects on bodies, e…
‘Einen Film Drehen’
This article analyses the ‘Gestus’ of turning in films by Harun Farocki and Christian Petzold, in light of a central claim of Andrew Webber's esteemed theoretical work on film: that film has the power to uncover unconscious processes through which subjects come into being and are made operational for political regimes. Farocki's Leben–BRD (1990) presents a user guide to life in West Germany at the moment of unification, looping through training s…
Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)