User Unconscious

Patricia Ticineto Clough is professor of sociology and women’s studies at the Graduate Center and Queens College, City University of New York. She is the author of Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (Minnesota, 2000), Feminist Thought: Desire, Power, and Academic Discourse, and The End(s) of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism. She is the editor of The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social with Craig Willse, editor of Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death, and, with Alan Frank and Steven Seidman, editor of Intimacies: A New World of Relational Life. Clough is also a psychoanalyst practicing in New York City.

"The essays collected in The User Unconscious, each in its own way and together, are groundbreaking in that they brilliantly pose problems of affect, media, and measure as questions of memory, embodiment, and subjectivation in the datalogical era. Drawing on the best in critical theory, philosophy, and media studies, Patricia Ticineto Clough shows us how to intervene more effectively in the present configuration of digital media and computational technologies in the afterward of neoliberalism and biopolitics."-Amit S. Rai, Queen Mary, University of London"Weaving together the analytical and the lyrical threads of her collective work, Patricia Ticineto Clough takes us to the originary technicity of an unconscious that starts experimenting with the nonhuman modalities of affect, media, and datalogics. These critical and poetic writings about the auto-affective reconfigurations of information governance are a compelling excursus into the political sensibilities for thinking technology today."-Luciana Parisi, Goldsmiths University of London"This is a gorgeous collection of essays and poems from one of our finest thinkers of technology, affect, and biopolitics. Patricia Ticineto Clough pushes thought to new edges, always coercing the bounds between what can be known, not-known, and un-known."-Jasbir Puar, author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability"If the most important part of a text on affect is the capacities it opens up for humans, then Clough is more than successful. By integrating personal narrative and poetry, she made this book more digestible and more human, which is ultimately the point."-Hyperrhiz"The User Unconscious is extremely efficient in making syntheses, tweaks, and combinations of theories in the field."-Afterimage

• ContentsIntroductionNotes towards A Theory of Affect-ItselfPatricia Ticineto Clough, Greg Goldberg, Rachel Schiff, Aaron Weeks, and Craig WillseWar by Other Means: What Difference Do(es) the Graphic(s) Make?Praying and Playing to the Beat of a Child’s Metronome Gendered Security/National Security: Political Branding and Population RacismPatricia Ticineto Clough and Craig WillseMy Mother’s Scream Feminist Theory: Bodies, Science, and TechnologyA Dream of Falling: Philosophy and Family Violence The Datalogical Turn Patricia Ticineto Clough, Karen Gregory, Benjamin Haber, R. Joshua ScannellThe Object’s Affects: The Rosary Rethinking Race, Calculation, Quantification and Measure And They Were DancingEcstatic Corona: From Ethnography to PerformanceAcknowledgmentsNotesPrevious PublicationsIndex