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<p>To develop my thinking somewhat: It is possible to say that ideas such as non-representational theory have come about in light of the postdigital- we are able to better understand the agency of technical systems; the tyranny of representation; the fixity
of one-way narrative structures; the homogeneity of representation in general (I would argue) through the framing of the post digital. In this way, the digital offers the possibility for diffractive readings (after Haraway and Barad), and an emphasis on difference
rather than a one-to-one mapping of an object with its representation. </p>
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<p>There is a lovely passage by Ian Hacking that Barad uses, whereby he traces representation to the Greek Democritus who thinks about a world made of atoms. From this point, the real is no longer equated with unqualified likeness. Atoms suggest a gap between
representation and what is represented, and we enter a world of appearances. It seems we have long attempted to force these two aspects back into a seamless totality, but the digital can help to remind us that the gap between these ideas is incomputable- filled
with irreducible difference and complexity. Representations are contingent, pre digital artefacts that wish to reduce the world to essentialism... This was the general direction of my thinking. I have not really formalised it yet... Of course, I am aware of
the ways in which digital technologies can be protocological and predetermining too- but I am hopeful for the potential of thinking through them...Of how we can productively deploy them in our thinking...</p>
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<p>I have to sleep now (UK bedtime!) But I will write more tomorrow and am happy to discuss this and anything else that is contributed then.</p>
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