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Ferocious Logics: Unmaking the Algorithm
[Monographie]
Abstract Contemporary power manifests in the algorithmic. And yet this power seems incomprehensible: understood as code, it becomes apolitical; understood as a totality, it becomes overwhelming. This book takes an alternate approach, using it to unravel the operations of Uber and Palantir, Airbnb and Amazon ... mehr
Contemporary power manifests in the algorithmic. And yet this power seems incomprehensible: understood as code, it becomes apolitical; understood as a totality, it becomes overwhelming. This book takes an alternate approach, using it to unravel the operations of Uber and Palantir, Airbnb and Amazon Alexa. Moving off the whiteboard and into the world, the algorithmic must negotiate with frictions - the 'merely' technical routines of distributing data and running tasks coming together into broader social forces that shape subjectivities, steer bodies, and calibrate relationships. Driven by the imperatives of capital, the algorithmic exhausts subjects and spaces, a double move seeking to both exhaustively apprehend them and exhaust away their productivities. But these on-the-ground encounters also reveal that force is never guaranteed. The irreducibility of the world renders logic inadequate and control gives way to contingency.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Alltag; Digitalisierung; Algorithmus; Datenspeicherung; Technikfolgen
Klassifikation
Technikfolgenabschätzung
Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Verlag
meson press
Erscheinungsort
Lüneburg
Seitenangabe
171 S.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14619/1402
ISBN
978-3-95796-141-9
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0