3Digital embodiment and financial infrastructures
This chapter examines the digital (subaltern)1 body and how it is produced through financial infrastructures. Our everyday engagement with and immersion in the digital body puts into question the experience of embodiment “coherent, whole and unified” through “a sense ‘corporeal wholeness’ ” (Grosz, 1994, 32). The digital body, as in the case of body image – albeit differently, through immersion and relational affective intensities – is also experienced as “a collection of ‘felt intensities’ that are derived from bodily sensations” (Blackman, 2008, 77). Yet in the case of the production of digital subaltern presence through microfinance platforms (such as ...
