{"id":8753,"date":"2023-05-31T20:36:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T00:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/?p=8753"},"modified":"2024-09-22T10:05:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T14:05:31","slug":"dataists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/31\/dataists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dataists"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later in <em>Infocracy<\/em>, Han writes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the dataist ear, this passionate commitment to freedom and democracy will sound like a ghostly voice from an already bygone era. From the dataist perspective, the idea of the human being as defined by individual autonomy and freedom, by the &#8216;will to will&#8217;, will eventually appear as merely a short historical interlude. Dataists would agree with Foucault when he invokes the death of the human being in <em>The Order of Things<\/em>: &#8216;As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end&#8230;.then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in the sand at the edge of the sea.&#8217; The sea whose waves are erasing the face in the sand is today a boundless sea of data, in which the human being dissolves into an insignificant data set. (43)<\/p>\n<cite>\u2014Byung-Chul Han, <em>Infocracy<\/em> (2022)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No outdoor walk this evening because SE Michigan, including Ypsilanti, is observing an Air Quality Alert, which I understand to be a small time toxic airborne event\u2014serious enough to stay indoors and take a pass on the daggered-eyeballs effect, but also just a sign of the dry, dusty, particulate-breezed moment. Ah, springtime. So instead I read another chapter of <em>Infocracy<\/em>, &#8220;Data Rationality,&#8221; which according to Han counterposes a discourse-driven &#8220;communicative rationality,&#8221; where argumentation, claims backed with evidence, and compromise toward consensus-ish assent puts gusto in democracy&#8217;s sails. In an era of data rationality, information outstrips deliberative discourse; people no matter how mightily they strive to pay attention and process events are left in the dust, overwhelmed and scattered in the haze of information overload. Bleak<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote modern-footnotes-footnote--hover-on-desktop \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000006500000000000000000_8753\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000006500000000000000000_8753-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000006500000000000000000_8753-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\"><em>Bleak<\/em> is my characterization of a mood, which, like all moods, fluctuates.<\/span> but discerning, Han takes this idea on a brief tour with stops at Habermas, public-sphere hopeful, then dataists Rousseau and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/people\/sandy\/overview\/\">Alex Pentland<\/a> of MIT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suppose, based on this, that rhetoricians are now and shall remain as outsiders to rising programs in data science (e.g., Data and Decisions); the data is extra-sensically vast, and the decisions are wrought in human-machine ratios more mechanistic than neuronal, more computational than synaptic, more algorithmic than fleshly. What a grand (and routinely fuckered) time we had while the beach drawing lasted, now-insignificant data set! So, what&#8217;re you gonna do now, democracy? What are the suitable responses, and do those responses have <em>any<\/em> chance of reaching <em>anyone<\/em> who can listen, engage in dialogue, make any difference? Get it together?! I don&#8217;t mean <em>make a difference<\/em> in an Army Corps of Engineers &#8220;protect the beach face&#8221; sort of way. Reading this chapter, I&#8217;m left puzzling generatively with a sense of no really, what becomes of this? If any juice remained in the democratizing efforts of writing programs, or critical literacies, or rhetorical education, are there variations on beach-drawn faces farther up or down the disappearing coastline? 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