Ferocious Logics: Unmaking the Algorithm - Softcover

Munn, Luke

 
9783957961402: Ferocious Logics: Unmaking the Algorithm
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3957961408 ISBN 13: 9783957961402
Publisher: Meson Press Eg, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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Publisher
Meson Press Eg
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3957961408
ISBN 13 
9783957961402
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
172

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