• Ferocious Logics: Unmaking the Algorithm

    Author(s):
    Luke Munn (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Subject(s):
    Mass media--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Book
    Tag(s):
    algorithmic power, data asymmetry, platform labor, Data as representation, Media studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/tzvj-ey05
    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 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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    Pub. DOI:
    10.14619/1402
    Publisher:
    Meson Press
    Pub. Date:
    2018
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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