Tero Karppi, “Digital Suicide and the Biopolitics of Leaving Facebook” ”[…] Our life from social relations, economy to interests is extensively tied into different kinds of social networks. The ubiquitous web produces what Félix Guattari calls “machinic subjectivities” (“Machinic” 158): it provides a sensation of “belonging to something,” of “being somewhere” along with the “sensation of forgetting oneself.” It is in these networks where we individuate ourselves according to pre-established categories such as age, profession or sex, for instance. At the same time these networks work on a level prior to any readymade categories and identities giving us sensations, affects and relations that are not yet individuated (cf. Lazzarato “Machine”). In the following, I will argue how Facebook’s production of machinic subjectivities is tied to the political economy of owning and using the data provided by the users of the service. This question is approached via techniques of disconnection. […]”

Tero Karppi, “Digital Suicide and the Biopolitics of Leaving Facebook”


”[…] Our life from social relations, economy to interests is extensively tied into different kinds of social networks. The ubiquitous web produces what Félix Guattari calls “machinic subjectivities” (“Machinic” 158): it provides a sensation of “belonging to something,” of “being somewhere” along with the “sensation of forgetting oneself.” It is in these networks where we individuate ourselves according to pre-established categories such as age, profession or sex, for instance. At the same time these networks work on a level prior to any readymade categories and identities giving us sensations, affects and relations that are not yet individuated (cf. Lazzarato “Machine”). In the following, I will argue how Facebook’s production of machinic subjectivities is tied to the political economy of owning and using the data provided by the users of the service. This question is approached via techniques of disconnection. […]”