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<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Events''' <br /> <br /> An official book launch with printed copies shall take place '''online on''' '''09 June 2026'''. This will be followed by an in-person launch. <br /> <br /> Please [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/7381-2/ join our mailing list] to keep updated. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publisher: The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Download: ''Unsettling Data'' on [http://147.86.16.2:9000/files/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf pdf]<br /> <br /> &lt;/br&gt;<br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee/University of Newcastle (AU)<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch and mystic, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. More about his current work on his website https://theunsettlingwitch.com/<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=6233 2026-03-04T12:26:45Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Events''' <br /> <br /> An official book launch with printed copies shall take place '''online on''' '''09 June 2026'''. This will be followed by an in-person launch. <br /> <br /> Please [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/7381-2/ join our mailing list] to keep updated. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publisher: The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Download: ''Unsettling Data'' on [http://147.86.16.2:9000/files/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf pdf]<br /> <br /> &lt;/br&gt;<br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee/University of Newcastle (AU)<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. More about his current work on his website https://theunsettlingwitch.com/<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=6232 2026-03-04T12:26:24Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Events''' <br /> <br /> An official book launch with printed copies shall take place '''online on''' '''09 June 2026'''. This will be followed by an in-person launch. <br /> <br /> Please [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/7381-2/ join our mailing list] to keep updated. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publisher: The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Download: ''Unsettling Data'' on [http://147.86.16.2:9000/files/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf pdf]<br /> <br /> &lt;/br&gt;<br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee / University of Newcastle (AU)<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. More about his current work on his website https://theunsettlingwitch.com/<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=6231 2026-03-04T12:23:54Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Events''' <br /> <br /> An official book launch with printed copies shall take place '''online on''' '''09 June 2026'''. This will be followed by an in-person launch. <br /> <br /> Please [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/7381-2/ join our mailing list] to keep updated. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publisher: The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Download: ''Unsettling Data'' on [http://147.86.16.2:9000/files/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf pdf]<br /> <br /> &lt;/br&gt;<br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. More about his current work on his website https://theunsettlingwitch.com/<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5895 2026-01-28T13:55:08Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Events''' <br /> <br /> An official book launch with printed copies shall take place online on '''09 June 2026'''. This will be followed by an in-person launch. <br /> <br /> Please [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/7381-2/ join our mailing list] to keep updated. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publisher: The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donate: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. &lt;u&gt;If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs.&lt;/u&gt; Send your contributions by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil using Reference: &quot;Unsettling Data.&quot; Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: ''Unsettling Data'' on [http://147.86.16.2:9000/files/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf pdf] <br /> <br /> &lt;/br&gt;<br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. More about his current work on his website https://theunsettlingwitch.com/<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5894 2026-01-26T17:56:57Z

<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Announcement''' <br /> <br /> An official book launch with printed copies shall take place online on '''09 June 2026'''. Please [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/7381-2/ join our mailing list] to keep updated. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publisher: The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donate: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. &lt;u&gt;If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs.&lt;/u&gt; Send your contributions by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil using Reference: &quot;Unsettling Data.&quot; Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: ''Unsettling Data'' on [http://147.86.16.2:9000/files/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf pdf] <br /> <br /> &lt;/br&gt;<br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. More about his current work on his website https://theunsettlingwitch.com/<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5893 2026-01-26T17:01:02Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Announcement''' <br /> <br /> An official book launch with printed copies shall take place on '''09 June 2026'''. Please [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/7381-2/ join our mailing list] to keep updated. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publisher: The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI) <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donate: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. &lt;u&gt;If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs.&lt;/u&gt; Send your contributions by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil using Reference: &quot;Unsettling Data.&quot; Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: ''Unsettling Data'' on [http://147.86.16.2:9000/files/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf pdf] <br /> <br /> &lt;/br&gt;<br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. More about his current work on his website https://theunsettlingwitch.com/<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5892 2026-01-26T17:00:10Z

<p>Dilan: added mailing list details</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Announcement''' <br /> <br /> An official book launch with printed copies shall take place on '''09 June 2026'''. Please [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/7381-2/ join our mailing list] to keep updated. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donate: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. &lt;u&gt;If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs.&lt;/u&gt; Send your contributions by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil using Reference: &quot;Unsettling Data.&quot; Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: ''Unsettling Data'' on [http://147.86.16.2:9000/files/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf pdf] <br /> <br /> &lt;/br&gt;<br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. More about his current work on his website https://theunsettlingwitch.com/<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5891 2026-01-26T13:43:07Z

<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donate: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. &lt;u&gt;If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs.&lt;/u&gt; Send your contributions by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil using Reference: &quot;Unsettling Data.&quot; Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: ''Unsettling Data'' on [http://147.86.16.2:9000/files/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf pdf] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;<br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. More about his current work on his website https://theunsettlingwitch.com/<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5886 2026-01-06T17:07:10Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donate: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. &lt;u&gt;If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs.&lt;/u&gt; Send your contributions by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil using Reference: &quot;Unsettling Data.&quot; Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;<br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5885 2026-01-06T17:06:07Z

<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Financial contribution: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. &lt;u&gt;If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs.&lt;/u&gt; Send your contributions by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil using Reference: &quot;Unsettling Data.&quot; Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;<br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5884 2026-01-06T16:25:08Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. &lt;u&gt;If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs.&lt;/u&gt; Send your contributions by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil using Reference: &quot;Unsettling Data.&quot; Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;<br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5883 2026-01-06T16:23:07Z

<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;<br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5882 2026-01-06T16:21:51Z

<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5881 2026-01-06T16:12:09Z

<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5880 2026-01-06T15:51:26Z

<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5879 2026-01-06T15:50:48Z

<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 378 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5878 2026-01-06T15:37:45Z

<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unsettling_Data_book.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5877 2026-01-06T14:37:11Z

<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Unsettling-Data_book.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5876 2026-01-06T14:21:13Z

<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider contributing towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK contributions--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international contributions--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5875 2026-01-06T14:20:19Z

<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts for purchase available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5874 2026-01-06T13:41:38Z

<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of Good Data and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom and Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5873 2026-01-06T13:39:52Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Co-editor of ''Good Data'' and Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5872 2026-01-06T13:38:04Z

<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: 9789464513226 <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5871 2026-01-03T21:16:39Z

<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5870 2026-01-01T22:43:11Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5869 2026-01-01T22:38:29Z

<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Author of Socio-Legal Aspects of the 3D Printing Revolution &amp; Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Author of Search Engine Freedom &amp; Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5868 2026-01-01T22:33:53Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Author of Socio-Legal Aspects of the 3D Printing Revolution &amp; Professor of Law and Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5867 2026-01-01T22:28:51Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that unsettles our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Professor of Law &amp; Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5866 2026-01-01T22:27:54Z

<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that questions our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Professor of Law &amp; Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5865 2026-01-01T22:25:34Z

<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;''Deeply thought-provoking work that challenges our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.''&quot; — Angela Daly, Professor of Law &amp; Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;''Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.''&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5864 2026-01-01T22:24:49Z

<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Praise'''<br /> <br /> &quot;Deeply thought-provoking work that challenges our assumptions about data and the digital political economy in original ways.&quot; — Angela Daly, Professor of Law &amp; Technology, University of Dundee<br /> <br /> &quot;Beautifully written and rewarding in the way in which feminist and Indigenous perspectives are offered to shine light on some of the most challenging questions of justice of our time.&quot; — Joris van Hoboken, Professor of Information Law, with special emphasis on Law and Digital Infrastructure, University of Amsterdam<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5863 2025-12-31T00:54:00Z

<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely available to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5862 2025-12-31T00:18:56Z

<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely accessible to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5861 2025-12-31T00:08:43Z

<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely accessible to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request, email dilan@theunsettlingwitch.com.<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5860 2025-12-31T00:06:01Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 182 x 257 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely accessible to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request.<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5859 2025-12-31T00:02:52Z

<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 176 x 250 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely accessible to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data. Receipts available upon request.<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5858 2025-12-31T00:02:19Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 176 x 250 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely accessible to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license. If you are able, please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data.<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5857 2025-12-30T23:59:55Z

<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 176 x 250 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely accessible to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license linked above. Please consider donating towards its publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data.<br /> <br /> For UK donations--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5856 2025-12-30T23:59:24Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 176 x 250 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely accessible to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license linked above. Please consider donating towards its publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data.<br /> <br /> For donations in UK--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: [https://theunsettlingwitch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unsettling-Data.pdf Link]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5855 2025-12-30T23:52:34Z

<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 176 x 250 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is freely accessible to anyone under the terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license linked above. Please consider donating towards its publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz Dil, Reference: Unsettling Data.<br /> <br /> For donations in UK--&gt; Account number: 39598679, Sort Code: 07-08-06<br /> <br /> For international donations--&gt; IBAN: GB40 NAIA 0708 0639 59 8679, BIC/SWIFT: NAIAGB21<br /> <br /> Download: coming soon<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5854 2025-12-30T23:16:29Z

<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: coming soon <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 176 x 250 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is released open-access under terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license linked above. Please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz, Reference: Unsettling Data.<br /> <br /> Download: coming soon<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

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<p>Dilan: </p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: TBA <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 176 x 250 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is released open-access under terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license linked above. Please consider donating towards the publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz, Reference: Unsettling Data.<br /> <br /> Download: coming soon<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5852 2025-12-30T23:13:58Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: TBA <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 176 x 250 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donations: This book is released open-access under terms set by the Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license linked above. Please consider donating towards publishing costs. Send donations by bank transfer to Dilan Dagaz, Reference: Unsettling Data.<br /> <br /> Download: coming soon<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

Dilan https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Unsettling_data&diff=5851 2025-12-30T23:02:58Z

<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: TBA <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 176 x 250 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donate:<br /> <br /> Download: coming soon<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

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<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 176 x 250 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: 30 December 2025 <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donate:<br /> <br /> Download: coming soon<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

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<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 176 x 250 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donate:<br /> <br /> Download: coming soon<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

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<p>Dilan: /* Unsettling Data */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 176 x 250 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: <br /> <br /> License: [[:File:Unsettling Data Migrantifa Commons BY-NC license.pdf|Migrantifa Commons BY-NC]] <br /> <br /> Donation:<br /> <br /> Download: coming soon<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

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<p>Dilan: /* Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form */</p> <hr /> <div>== Unsettling Data ==<br /> <br /> === Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form ===<br /> <br /> [[File:Unsettlingcover.png|thumb|300px|Cover with four differently obfuscated photographs, reading 'Unsettling Data / Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form - Dilan Dagaz']] <br /> <br /> &lt;br&gt;'''Details''' <br /> <br /> ISBN: <br /> <br /> 382 Pages <br /> <br /> 176 x 250 mm <br /> <br /> Publication Date: <br /> <br /> License: Migrantifa Commons BY-NC <br /> <br /> Donation:<br /> <br /> Download: coming soon<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Description'''<br /> <br /> What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth?<br /> ''Unsettling Data'' answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer<br /> and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as<br /> the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the<br /> data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, ''Unsettling Data'' argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.<br /> <br /> ''Unsettling Data'' will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law<br /> and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or<br /> aesthetics of data from a critical lens.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Author'''<br /> <br /> Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences ''summa cum laude'' from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality. <br /> <br /> <br /> '''Table of Contents'''<br /> <br /> Note from the Author<br /> <br /> Acknowledgments<br /> <br /> Poem: I am not your data<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Part I: Framing Representationalism''<br /> <br /> 1. Introduction<br /> <br /> 2. Representationalism and Data’s Legal Form<br /> <br /> ''Part II: Exposing Representationalist Configurations''<br /> <br /> 3. Data Within the Non-Law<br /> <br /> 4. Data Within the Law<br /> <br /> 5. Data between the Legal Person and Thing<br /> <br /> ''Part III: Unsettling Representationalist Imaginaries''<br /> <br /> 6. Data and the Erasure of Human Agency<br /> <br /> 7. Data and the Erasure of Unhuman Agency<br /> <br /> <br /> Epilogue<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Divinatory Play Projects<br /> <br /> Beyond Representationalism: Tactics of Earthy Data<br /> [[Category: TITiPI publishing]]</div>

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