Отвъд примката на рефлексията: блогова теория и хиперверие
Beyond the Snare of Reflection: Blog Theory and Hyperstition

Summary/Abstract: The paper enters into a polemical dialogue with the American theorist Jodi Dean and her attempts to critically examine the blogosphere through the prism of psychoanalysis. To this end, the text analyses whether user-generatedcontent on the internet can produce meaningful and epistemologically sustainable“social enclaves”, informal communities and institutions, or whether it operatesmore as a series of recursive and increasingly meaningless quasi-messages. Whileattempting to consider blogging as both a constructive practice and a pathology,the text develops the hypothesis that in special cases one can conceptually speakof “epistemic inflation”, a phenomenon that can manifest itself at the personal aswell as the social, economic and/or political level. Furthermore, the paper brieflyintroduces the ideas, history and one of the key concepts of the influential britishtheory-fiction collective, CCRU (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit).

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