![]() ![]() Working within-but-against these surreptitious structures are radical practices that critique, undermine, leverage, and offer alternatives to ideologies of disambiguation. They thus espouse ideologies via systematized calculation and centralized command, despite the commonly-perceived transparency, fluidity and egalitarianism of the Net. Rooted in symbolic logic, digital technologies carry a heritage of disambiguation-a dominancy of overdetermined, reason-based principles writ furtively in algorithms and protocols. This thesis indicates a lineage of this nature in computer and Internet history, twentieth-century cybernetics, and larger philosophic histories. These practices, this thesis proposes, may be best characterized by their radical use of ambiguity and un-certainty – qualities at clear odds with the rational, efficient nature of digital technologies. It attempts to account for contemporary artistic practices that critically address some of the objectionable tendencies within digital culture. This thesis bridges studies in technology history, network and political theory, and art history. Within a culture of persistent efficiency, ambiguous imagery represents a critical alternative. ![]()
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