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An event-without-witness: a Nietzschean theory of the digital will to power as the will to temporalize

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  • Talha İşsevenler

    (City University of New York, United States)

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This article offers a Nietzschean theory of digital will to power to conceptualize the temporality of social media feeds run by algorithms. Stylistic and methodological temporalities of Nietzsche are discussed as well as their influence in subsequent social theory of political technologies. The paradox of heavy investment in both subjective expression and nonhuman temporalization in social media milieus is addressed with the concept of an event-without-witness drawn from Nietzsche’s account of himself as the solitary thinker of catastrophe of nihilism and psychoanalytical and deconstructive literatures on the catastrophes of the 20th century. Nietzsche’s fundamental resistance to and fascination with the philosophical and cultural modes of mummyfication, i.e. eternalization as an expression of the will to power is used to think the will to power in the creative algorithmic temporalization of social interactions through the selection, distribution and serialization of data for social media feeds.

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  • Talha İşsevenler, 2022. "An event-without-witness: a Nietzschean theory of the digital will to power as the will to temporalize," The Agonist, Transnational Press London, UK, vol. 16(2), pages 3-93, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:agonjl:v:16:y:2022:i:1:p:83-93
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/agon.v16i1.2753
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