Toward a Minor Tech

Authors

  • Christian Ulrik Andersen Aarhus University
  • Geoff Cox London South Bank University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/aprja.v12i1.140431

Keywords:

Minor tech, Big Tech, Deleuze & Guattari

Abstract

This journal issue addresses what we are calling "minor tech" making reference to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's essay "Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature" (written in 1975). They propose the concept of minor literature as opposed to great or established literature — the use of a major language that subverts it from within. "Becoming-minitorian" in this sense — to use a related concept from A Thousand Plateaus — involves the recognition of particular instances of power and the ability of the repressed minority to gain some degree of autonomy of expression. For our purpose, this notion of the minor is a relative position to major (or big) tech.

Author Biographies

Christian Ulrik Andersen, Aarhus University

Christian Ulrik Andersen is associate professor at the Dept. of Digital Design & Information Studies, Aarhus University, Research Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (2023-25), and founding member of Digital Aesthetics Research Center.

Geoff Cox, London South Bank University

Geoff Cox is Professor of Art and Computational Culture at London South Bank University, Director of Digital & Data Research Centre, and co-Director of Centre for the Study of the Networked Image.

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Published

2023-09-07

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2023): Minor Tech

Section

Editorial

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