Becoming-Social in a Networked Age

Neal Thomas is Assistant Professor of Media and Technology Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

"This is the book on post-documentary technologies that I’ve been waiting for: an understandable, but also deep and critical explanation of the philosophical assumptions, the form and functions, and the political implications and possibilities of recent new media technologies." -Ronald E. Day, Indiana University at Bloomington"This book proves that critical consideration of the processes of subjectivity belong in the foreground of media, technology and software studies. Vanquishing the shallow presumptions of subjecthood and identity that linger in accounts of social computing, Neal Thomas expands the philosophical space currently available for the investigation of how sociality is constituted and a post-individual subjectivity is structured by a-signifying machinic relations." -Gary Genosko, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

• 1. On the notion of a formatted subject2. The epistemically-formatted subject3. The performatively-formatted subject4. The signaletically-formatted subject5. The allagmatically-formatted subjectConclusion: Towards an enunciative informatics