Being with the machine: The diremptive subject and algorithmic multiplicity

Abstract

In this article, I use Reiner Schürmann’s interpretation of Heidegger’s ‘diremption’ as a framework to examine how subjectivity is constructed in light of surveillance technology. I explore the use of algorithmic technologies – first in the context of surveillance capitalism and second in the context of art – in order to make a case for the present epoch as a site of movement towards a fundamentally multiple subject, whose singularization emerges from its embodied relationship to technology.