Data as a new imagined history

Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities, is no doubt a brilliant attempt to shake the foundations of the nationalist sentiments that have pervaded the modern era. While writing at a time before the collapse of one of the largest imagined communities (the USSR), I think that his analysis still stands as a relevant text to answering the problems facing social change today. This is most valid in conceptualizing how to propose a new(imagined? For isn't one of Anderson's most viable points that the national-structure first must emerge as an imagining, only then to be "modeled, adapted and transformed" [141]) social or network of power, in that the structure of oppression (the state) must first be analyzed before society can re-imagine itself.
I think that in this vein of thought one can turn to Jameson's argument, in which he proposed an imagining of a "new aesthetic," that of "cognitive mapping." Jameson wishes to propose a method of mapping a certain totality out a world that is nothing short of global, fragmented and perhaps unimaginable. While his call is for a transnational movement, some of the conceptualizations of the imagined community that Anderson raises seem essential in forging this new aesthetic. I think as others have addressed, and perhaps because it is central to Anderson's argument we should observe his analysis of language as formative of "a special kind of contemporaneous community" (145). In discussing the anthem and national song Anderson suggests,

No matter how banal the words and mediocre the tunes, there is in this singing anexperience of simultaneity. At precisely such moments people wholly unknown to each other utter the same verses to the same melody. The image unisonance. (145)

Much like the readers of the daily paper, these voices in their nationalist pride are inherently linked unifying a body that is always already threatened by the fact that there is no unifying force for the nation. In this sense Anderson describes how a totality is formed out of an experience in time. These experiences linking the individuals of the nation-state solidify its legitimacy.
The problem of languages being bound to particular regions and now in the modern era linked to certain "power-languages" that both legitimize/are legitimized by the state, poses the problem for the proposed international community. There is no transnational language and Anderson rightfully points out that there never will be. Despite this, can we look to the emerging technologies that neither Jameson nor Anderson could have foresaw (such as the World Wide Web), as an answer to the problem of internationalism?
For this I do not have an answer but I feel that there are interesting readings to be made of international structures and networks such as the WWW. For one, they are ideologically bound as an imagining; the internet is spoken of like it is the equal meeting grounds for all communities around the globe. This of course is a problematic view in that these emergent technologies, much like print-capitalism which Anderson critiques, are inherently linked to capital, as they are available only as/through commodities. These technologies though in their ability to mediate beyond language (sound, image, and now video) at near instantaneous speeds may be the form from which a new imagined community (that of the global) can be formed. These technologies though (like print-capitalism) as mass media will need to undergo a vernacularization in order to truly break from the nation "blast[ing] open the continuum of history" (Illuminations, 262). These new technologies are perhaps the best form that man has to synthesize the Angelus Novus, yet the Angel can can only watch in terror as "progress" builds; these technologies only serve us as seeing depositories. From these depositories, perhaps a new literacy, one which is read through mapping and therefore a "unique experience" with the vast new data, like the historical materialist, in order to form the cognitive maps necessary to forge Jameson's new aesthetic.

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