Ferocious Logics | Unmaking the Algorithm

Luke Munn

ISBN 10: 3957961408 / ISBN 13: 9783957961402

Published by meson press eG, 2018

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Ferocious Logics | Unmaking the Algorithm | Luke Munn | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2018 | meson press eG | EAN 9783957961402 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: meson press eG, Salzstr. 1, 21335 Lüneburg, info[at]meson[dot]press | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ferocious Logics | Unmaking the Algorithm
• Publisher: meson press eG
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3957961408
• ISBN 13: 9783957961402
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 178W x 127H x 10D millimeters 178 millimeters width by 127 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 168 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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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.