Bigger Than You: Big Data and Obesity

In her first inquiry toward decelerationist aesthetics, Katherine Behar explores the rise of two "big deal" contemporary phenomena, big data and obesity. In both, scale rearticulates the human as a diffuse informational pattern, causing important shifts in political form as well as aesthet...

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Main Author: Behar, Katherine, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2016
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE
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