TY - BOOK AU - Behar, Katherine AB - In her first inquiry toward a decelerationist aesthetics, Katherine Behar explores in this essay chapbook 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 aesthetic form. Bigness redraws relationships between the singular and the collective. Understood as informational patterns, collectives can be radically inclusive, even incorporating nonhumans. As a result, the political subject is slowly becoming a new object. This social and informational body belongs to no single individual, but is shared in solidarity with something “bigger than you.” In decelerationist aesthetics, the aesthetic properties, proclivities, and performances of objects come to defy the accelerationist imperative to be nimbly individuated. Decelerationist aesthetics rejects atomistic, liberal, humanist subjects; this unit of self is too consonant with capitalist relations and functions. Instead, decelerationist aesthetics favors transhuman sociality embodied in particulate, mattered objects; the aesthetic form of such objects resists capitalist speed and immediacy by taking back and taking up space and time. In just this way, big data calls into question the conventions by which humans are defined as discrete entities, and individual scales of agency are made to form central binding pillars of social existence through which bodies are drawn into relations of power and pathos DO - 10.21983/P3.0135.1.00 ID - OAPEN ID: 1004605 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 982244908 KW - big data KW - computing KW - cultural studies KW - obesity KW - technology L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/2ff8c22c-8992-4632-ac68-12852bc0f374/1004605.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25490 PB - punctum books PP - Brooklyn, NY PY - 2016 SN - 9780692652831 TI - Bigger Than You: Big Data and Obesitynull ER -