Thomas Weight
PhD
Media and Communications
Thomas Weight is a PhD candidate in Media and Communication at the University of Melbourne. His dissertation attempts to theorize the structure and subject of digitality by way of topology and political economy.
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Thesis
The Structure and Subject of Digitality
My thesis seeks to re-cognize the concept of digitality by way of topology and political economy. Digitality is generally understood to be a novel phenomenon that involves a new sort of technological logic and, resultingly, an ontological effect. This thesis instead argues that digitality is a historical phenomenon that involves a particular structural logic and, resultingly, a totalising social effect. I argue that this re-cognizing allows media theory to move beyond the fetish of ‘new media’ and speculatively (in the Hegelian sense of the term) comprehend digitality and its psychic discontents.