Flesh, Wax, Horse Skin and Hair: The Many Intensities of Data
Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies
Published online on July 02, 2013
Abstract
This article stems from a desire to move data across theories, methodologies, fields, and disciplines. We argue that despite our best efforts to tame, contain and control data, no thing has escaped. So, while indiscernible the no thing is the potentiality of something more, something uncontrollable, indescribable, in excess . . . This article intends to open up that no thing by providing a physical and conceptual space that moves beyond a general concern with interpretation, representation, and identity to an engagement with interdisciplinary decomposition of data.
DATA analysis remains never securely legible in any (stable) present, but coexists as a repetition that finds ways to endlessly redistribute and reinvest itself in new and different forms of the data’s flows and vibrations.