Ferocious Logics: Unmaking the Algorithm [electronic resource].

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Ferocious Logics: Unmaking the Algorithm [electronic resource].

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Meson Press 2018

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CC BY-NC-SA

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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 ...
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Luke Munn
Joely Day
Michael Deistler
Torsten Köchlin
Silke Krieg

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