Digital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time. In addition to recasting social interaction, culture, economics, and politics, it has profoundly transformed the self. It has created new ways of being and constructing a self, but also new ways of being constructed as a self from the outside, new ways of being configured, represented, and governed as a self by sociotechnical systems. Rather than analyze theories of the self, I focus on practices of the self, using this expression in a looser, more general sense than that used by Foucault. I begin by considering and reformulating two early lines of argument about the web as a medium for exploring and emancipating the self. Subsequent sections show how digital hyperconnectivity has engendered new ways of objectifying, quantifying, producing, and regulating the self—considered both as active, reflexive practices and as systemic, data- and algorithm-driven processes. I conclude by reflecting on the broader implications of contemporary modes of governing the self and by underscoring the ways in which hyperconnectivity has colonized the territories of the self, conscripting the self into the service of techno-social systems.

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数字超连接与自我

数字超连接是我们这个时代的决定性事实。除了重塑社会互动、文化、经济和政治之外，它还深刻地改变了自我。它创造了存在和构建自我的新方式，但也创造了从外部被构建为自我的新方式，以及被社会技术系统配置、代表和管理为自我的新方式。我没有分析关于自我的理论，而是专注于自我的实践，在比福柯所用的更宽松、更一般的意义上使用这种表达方式。我首先考虑并重新阐述关于网络作为探索和解​​放自我的媒介的两个早期论点。随后的部分展示了数字超连接如何产生客观化、量化、生产和调节自我的新方式——两者都被认为是主动的，反思性实践，并作为系统的、数据和算法驱动的过程。最后，我反思了当代自我管理模式的更广泛影响，并强调了超连接性殖民自我领域的方式，将自我征召为技术社会系统的服务。