Broken data : Conceptualising data in an emerging world

In this article, we introduce and demonstrate the concept-metaphor of broken data. In doing so, we advance critical discussions of digital data by accounting for how data might be in processes of decay, making, repair, re-making and growth, which are inextricable from the ongoing forms of creativity that stem from everyday contingencies and improvisatory human activity. We build and demonstrate our argument through three examples drawn from mundane everyday activity: the incompleteness, inaccuracy and dispersed nature of personal self-tracking data; the data cleaning and repair processes of Big Data analysis and how data can turn into noise and vice versa when they are transduced into sound within practices of music production and sound art. This, we argue is a necessary step for considering the meaning and implications of data as it is increasingly mobilised in ways that impact society and our everyday worlds.Peer reviewe

Rupturas de mundo: análisis del cautiverio y la tortura desde Lévinas

The following investigation analyzes the testimonies of captivity and torture, which present several questions to the traditional existential phenomenological theory. For this reason, it is proposed a continuation and deepening of the “broken world” theory of Lévinas, with the purpose to offer an explanation and some sense to what is said in those testimonies. Relying on the “paradigmatic examples”, four “world breaks” are proposed with the aim to understand the different responses and relations that a subject has with it body in the context of torture and captivity.En la siguiente investigación se analizan testimonios de cautiverio y tortura, los cuales generan una serie de interrogantes a la teoría fenomenológica existencial tradicional. Es por esto, que se propone una continuación y profundización de la teoría de “mundo roto” de Lévinas en un intento de dar sentido y explicar lo afirmado en tales testimonios. Respaldándose en los “ejemplos paradigmáticos”, se proponen cuatro “quiebres de mundo” ante los cuales comprender las distintas reacciones y relaciones que un sujeto tiene con su cuerpo en ciertos casos de tortura y cautiverio