Colin Koopman is associate professor of philosophy and director of the New Media & Culture Program at the University of Oregon.
"How We Became Our Data is a landmark contribution to
contemporary philosophy of subjectivities and a must-read for
anyone interested in the digital age. Koopman masterfully traces
the birth of the informational person, meticulously excavating the
informatic archives of the early twentieth century--from birth
registration to personality testing to racial data on real estate
and crime--to demonstrate how we have become our data today.
Koopman develops a provocative new model of how power circulates in
the informational age, providing an essential link between the
statistical and confessional model of the nineteenth century and
the digital profiling of the twenty-first."--Bernard E. Harcourt,
author of Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age
"In his How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational
Person, Koopman examines early evidence of data and the
consequences it has on how we think and express ourselves today.
His book looks at those moments when data structures -- such as
those involved in birth certificates or social security numbers --
become obligatory."-- "Eugene Weekly"
"How We Became Our Data looks at the design and uptake of
three information formats in the United States between 1913 and
1937: birth certificates, personality tests, and real estate
appraisal templates...a welcome provocation to think historically
and politically about the problems we face as 'informational
persons.' Koopman's concept of 'infopower' provides a way of
talking about the con-sequences of the design and use of
information formats."--Gregory Laynor "The Information Society"
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