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Ferocious Logics: Unmaking the Algorithm
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.
- ISBN
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978-3-95796-141-9
- Extent
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Seite(n): 171
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Subject
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Technik, Technologie
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Technikfolgenabschätzung
Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie
Alltag
Digitalisierung
Algorithmus
Datenspeicherung
Technikfolgen
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Munn, Luke
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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meson press
- (where)
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Deutschland, Lüneburg
- (when)
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2018
- DOI
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-59121-1
- Rights
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Object type
- Monografie
Associated
- Munn, Luke
- meson press
Time of origin
- 2018
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