03130oam 22005654a 450 991040377000332120230621142728.090-485-3741-X10.1515/9789048537419(CKB)4100000011300927(OCoLC)1178543320(MdBmJHUP)muse86647(DE-B1597)548870(DE-B1597)9789048537419(MiAaPQ)EBC6637679(Au-PeEL)EBL6637679(OCoLC)1159003295(MiAaPQ)EBC30793566(Au-PeEL)EBL30793566(EXLCZ)99410000001130092720200723d2020 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEngines of OrderA Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques /Bernhard Rieder1st ed.Baltimore, Maryland :Project Muse,2020©20201 online resource (351 pages) : illustrationsRecursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniquesIncludes bibliographical references and index.Engines of order -- Rethinking software -- Software-making and algorithmic techniques -- From universal classification to a postcoordinated universe -- From frequencies to vectors -- Interested learning -- Calculating networks : from sociometry to PageRank -- Conclusion : toward technical culture.Software has become a key component of contemporary life and algorithmic techniques that rank, classify, or recommend anything that fits into digital form are everywhere. This book approaches the field of information ordering conceptually as well as historically. Building on the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon and the cultural techniques tradition, it first examines the constructive and cumulative character of software and shows how software-making constantly draws on large reservoirs of existing knowledge and techniques. It then reconstructs the historical trajectories of a series of algorithmic techniques that have indeed become the building blocks for contemporary practices of ordering. Developed in opposition to centuries of library tradition, coordinate indexing, text processing, machine learning, and network algorithms instantiate dynamic, perspectivist, and interested forms of arranging information, ideas, or people. Embedded in technical infrastructures and economic logics, these techniques have become engines of order that transform the spaces they act upon.Recursions: theories of media, materiality, and cultural techniques.Computer softwareAlgorithmsElectronic books. algorithms, information ordering, media archaeology, software studies.Computer software.Algorithms.518/.1Rieder Bernhard967682MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910403770003321Engines of Order2197274UNINA