Here is where we can locate the emerging paradigm of the database, and consider its effects. And, again, one can think movement in terms of the immobilizations that it locates. After all, it was Serge Daney who reminded us that the set of movement-conventions that is cinema only took hold via the public's immobilization in theaters, arrested and held in thrall by the screen. Such a public is today an animated and tracked public. Harnessed to new technological assemblages and driven by processing imperatives, machine-images track movements as representation.
Tracking is the way in which one sees and is seen by the image.
Such a body, whether in flesh or networked mode, incorporates fitness as the erasure of any threat to efficient, fast, and reliable flows. A movement constituted through patterns of repetition, enmeshed in circuits, harnessed to social and technical machines. In either case, counting equals accounting for , and the body is formatted through arrays of variables and calculations. Movement configures as a kind of statistical articulation. As individuals and groups are processed, the public configures as a calculus of manageable interests, opinions, patterns, and functions.