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Author:   Olga Goriunova
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.397kg
ISBN:  

9781517916510

ISBN 10:   1517916518
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   23 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction: The Uses and Kinds of Subjects Digital Subjects Operate at a Distance ~ Subject, Person, Self, and Subjectivity ~ Legal Fictive Person and Fictional Persona ~ Different Kinds and Uses of Abstraction ~ Ideal as Mathematical Projection, Inhabiting Abstractions Through Desire ~ The Body as a Reality Setting for Subjects ~ Some Shortcuts Through the Chapters 1. Subject at a Distance and the Politics of Knowing What Kinds of Digital Subjects Are There? ~ Probability Distributions and Predicted Subjects as Patterns ~ Indexical Capacities of Data ~ An Index, Icon, or Diagram ~ Indexicality Comes from Elsewhere ~ Distance in the Digital Subject ~ The Modern Subject at a Distance from Oneself ~ Transcendental Subjects and Ideal Objects of Calculus ~ Asking About the Potential of Abstract Subjects ~ Subjects' Useful Uselessness: Lots of Abstractions ~ Conundrums 2. Ideals: Subjects Desire Abstractions Correlating Patterns and Profiling the Ideal Subject ~ Ideal as Abstraction: How to Desire a Top Percentile ~ Becoming Oneself: Desire to Be Known by Computation ~ Recognizability: Artificial Intelligence as Subjective and Objective Truth-Teller ~ Bayesian Prediction in the Quest for Truths ~ The Hegelian Mutual Realization of Subject and World ~ Gripping Subjects 3. Struggles for Realities Singular Identity, Ground Truthing, Making the ""Really True"" ~ Nature Versus Biometrics: Data-Stitching and Aligning ~ Shaping Artificial Intelligence to Orchestrate a ""Real World"" ~ The Shifting Sands of New Realities Acknowledgments Notes Index

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""Exciting and important, Ideal Subjects has been needed for a decade, if not longer. Olga Goriunova approaches the theory of the subject in the context of modernity and technology, answering a series of questions that has been both central to yet obfuscated by recent scholarship.""--Justin Joque, University of Michigan

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Olga Goriunova is professor of media arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is author of Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet and coauthor of Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility (Minnesota, 2019).

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