TY  - GEN
AU  - Munn,Luke
TI  - Ferocious Logics : Unmaking the Algorithm
SN  - 1402
PY  - 2018///
PB  - meson press
KW  - Film, TV & radio
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Production
KW  - Alexa
KW  - Relationships
KW  - Body
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - Subject
KW  - Algorithm
KW  - Airbnb
KW  - Labor
KW  - Space
KW  - Contingency
KW  - Capital
KW  - Uber
KW  - Productivity
KW  - Palantir
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37552/1/9783957961419_Munn_Ferocious_Logics.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38028
ER  -