{"product_id":"never-alone-except-for-now-kris-cohen-9780822369257","title":"Never Alone, Except for Now: Art, Networks, Populations","description":"How is it that one can be connected to a vast worldwide network of other people and places via digital technologies and yet also be completely alone? Kris Cohen tackles this philosophical question in \u003ci\u003eNever Alone, Except for Now\u003c\/i\u003e by exploring how contemporary technologies are changing group formations and affiliations within social life. He identifies a new form of collectivity that exists between publics, which are built through conscious acts, and populations, which are automatically constructed through the collection of Big Data. Finding traditional liberal concepts of the public sphere and neoliberal ideas of populations inadequate on their own to examine these new forms of sociality, Cohen places familiar features of the web-such as emoticons, trolling, and search engines-in conversation with artworks by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, William Gibson, Sharon Hayes, and Thomson \u0026amp; Craighead to more precisely articulate the affective and aesthetic experiences of living between publics and populations. This liminal experience-caught between existing as a set of data points and as individuals newly empowered to create their own online communities-explains, Cohen contends, how one is simultaneously alone and connected in ways never before possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kris Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822369257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822369257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Kris Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47202680176895,"sku":"9780822369257","price":144.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_65027010-e092-4817-afc3-e5fd2c1cbf04.jpg?v=1756833088","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/never-alone-except-for-now-kris-cohen-9780822369257","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}