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Available now from Meson Press: Shintaro Miyazaki's new book “Counter-Dancing Digitality. On Commoning and Computation”
meson.press/books/counter-danc (free PDF via Open Access)

This has been my most extensive translation effort to date. Going through all these elaborations and finding English words for them, particularly for the idiosyncratic expressions, has been a deep dive into the inspiring network of thoughts presented in this text. I am happy it is finally published: “Digitality is imposed upon us! To change this, we should not turn away from it, but look carefully into its transformative power and make operable alternatives such as counter-algorhythms and solidarity-oriented commoning. The aim is a world where profit and property no longer exist, but instead where a cooperative dance – between all the needs posed by our ecosystems, and all the needs of people – becomes practicable. This book is a critical media theory of future-building, modulated by a focus on the potentials of counter-dancing as providing ways to unfold fugitive practices.”

Prof. Dr. Shintaro Miyazaki teaches and researches in the field of media studies (digitality, computation, critique, and social transformation) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His collaegue Jussi Parikka, professor in digital aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University & Winchester School of Art, says: “Shintaro Miyazaki’s joyful book builds a media theoretical proposal for collective rhythms in computational culture. The mix of wonderful readings and insights offers alternatives to the depressing beat of capitalism, while maneuvering from cybernetics and computational modeling to play, from media archaeology to Marx and digital commons.”

The German version, published a few months earlier, can be accessed from transcript-open.de/isbn/6626.

A box of copies of “Counter-Dancing Digitality. On Commoning and Computation” by Shintaro Miyazaki.
One copy of “Counter-Dancing Digitality. On Commoning and Computation” by Shintaro Miyazaki.
Excerpt from page 68 of the “Counter-Dancing Digitality. On Commoning and Computation” by Shintaro Miyazaki: “This leads to unexpected sources of inspiration, such as the fields of learning” and “cognition.” Learning to Dance. Moten and Harney refer to the danger of affective-somatic contagion as synaptic work. A mode of work that not only obeys and follows the beats of the profit-driven colonial algorhythm² and the compulsion of “logistic capitalism,” but also enhances and optimizes it (see 2021, 56). While Moten and Harney do not misspell the word algorithm – they seem to leave that to me – they articulate the logic of the factual constraint of automatic accumulation of capital, M-C-M+, as a 500-year-old rhythm ²Algorhythm as a term originated from the synthesis of the technomathematical term “algorithm,” which is more associated with abstraction and computation, and the musical and sonic term “rhythm,” which has more connotations of flow, the real, and the living. At the same time, the cacography algorhythm is tied to alphanumeric notation. As with Derridean différance, the difference between algorithm and algorhythm is inaudible when it is spoken (see Miyazaki 2013). Rhythm as an epistemic filter for a critique of power gradients was already recognized by the French Marxist and later urban sociologist Henri Lefebvre (1901–91), who argued for rhythm analysis as an approach to temporally capture the operativity of a city (see 2004).”
Cover image of “Counter-Dancing Digitality. On Commoning and Computation” by Shintaro Miyazaki.
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