{"resolved":true,"match_type":"uuid","source_type":"original_book","book_id":"a31b1606-7526-4f42-a12d-1edcb41ff0e7","title":"DIGITAL LABOR THE INTERNET AS PLAYGROUND AND FACTORY","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780415896948","requested_by":"printed_page","book":{"source_type":"original_book","book_id":"a31b1606-7526-4f42-a12d-1edcb41ff0e7","id":"a31b1606-7526-4f42-a12d-1edcb41ff0e7","uuid":"a31b1606-7526-4f42-a12d-1edcb41ff0e7","title":"DIGITAL LABOR THE INTERNET AS PLAYGROUND AND FACTORY","normalized_title":"digitallabortheinternetasplaygroundandfactory","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780415896948","isbns":["9780415896948","9780415896955","9780203145791"],"parsed":true,"ai_readable":true,"document_type":"book","page_count":267,"navigation_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/a31b1606-7526-4f42-a12d-1edcb41ff0e7","title_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/title/DIGITAL%20LABOR%20THE%20INTERNET%20AS%20PLAYGROUND%20AND%20FACTORY","fixed_page_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/a31b1606-7526-4f42-a12d-1edcb41ff0e7/page/{printed_page}","path_api_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/book/a31b1606-7526-4f42-a12d-1edcb41ff0e7/page/{printed_page}","read_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/a31b1606-7526-4f42-a12d-1edcb41ff0e7","page_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/a31b1606-7526-4f42-a12d-1edcb41ff0e7/page","search_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/a31b1606-7526-4f42-a12d-1edcb41ff0e7/search"},"page":{"printed_page":119,"pdf_page":126,"physical_index":126,"physical_index_base":0,"printed_page_status":"recognized","page_sha256":"be535b27fd08fe095ddbeda132a22de1dd5f285963ca5c968cbf14f8d60e2056"},"chapter":"DIGITAL LABOR","content":"Drawing on the work of mathematician Gregory Chaitlin, Parisi argues that this is a sensual mathematics that would add to the calculus of probabilities “vague orincomplete quantities at the limit of Os and 1s\" (Parisi 2009c). These indeterminacies “transform the logic of binary states, yes and no, into the fuzzy states of maybes and perhaps.\" “These indeterminacies,\" Parisi continues, “are not merely qualitative renderings of a digital binarism\" but are to be understood in terms of new processes of quantification that recognize \"the full densely packedzones of information that are the intensive surrounds of zero and one,\"zones defined by \"an intrinsic numerical variability which remains computationally open\"(Parisi 2009c: 363). Parisi also draws on Greg Lynn, whose software architecture makes use of infinitely small intervals of information as well. In such cases, the computation remains open, or “extension becomes inflection or infection,\" where “active and passive parasitic forces mark the obliqueness of the environment that never reaches a point of equilibriumin so far as any stability is mobile directed by vectorsof attraction and repulsion\" (Parisi 2009c: 364).\n\nThis mathematics allows a software design that exposes curvature, going beyond probabilities as nanoprogramming of thefuturity of thought and extension in matter would necessitate and as measuring affect or potentiality also would require. It is a mathematics that allows for a measure other than the measure of probability; such a measure is singular but productive, as measuring cannot but modulate and change the intensity of potential or affect. As such, the metric of measure necessarily will change with each and every measure. In this sense, the measure isan aesthetic measure or affective measure, understanding aesthetic measure to be singular, nongeneralizable, and particular to each event or each modulation of potentiality. It is a measure that allows for the experience of imperceptibles, of prehensions, and, as such, permits their modulation. This experience, however, is not a human-centered experience but is experience at every scale of matter; indeed, there is a gesturing toward a scaleless matter. Yet, for Parisi, this is not a mathematical measure that claims ultimate transparency but rather one that shedescribes, drawing onWhitehead, to be carrying with it “\"the dust of the world,\" “the dark affectivity of matter,\" the incomputable (Parisi 2009c: 266–7). Yet, with nanotechnology, it would seem that there is an effort to get even closer to this dark matter to be able to modulate its potentialities, to get closer to “affective power, whose order, structure or pattern are yet to be universalized and rather remain scattered, discontinuous, infinite instances of a multiplicity of modes of thought and extension\" (Parisi 2012: 37).\n\nI turn now to the political and cultural implications of the mathematization or computation of the thought and extension in matter, after which I will return to a discussion of the contrasts between process philosophies more prevalent in Parisi’s work and the speculative realist philosophies that I will argue are also implicated in the mathematics and technoscience that has drawn her to philosophical reflection. Of course, Parisi is not only engaged with philosophical reflection; she also attends to the implications of the entanglement of technoscience, politics, and economy Drawing on current discussion of what Gilles Deleuze has called “control society, Parisi joins others in a discussion of preemption, a mode of governing that preempts the future by modulating the experience of memory and time, and at every scale of matter; she also introduces what she calls “preemptive/hensive power,\"’ referring to the nanotechnological aim to “invisibly restratify the biological ground of human-bound bodies and thought” (Parisi 2012: 48).\n\nThe Digital, Labor, and Measure beyondBiopolitics\n\n119","previous_page":118,"next_page":120}