04471nam 2200673 450 991068254480332120220204183300.01-5292-1532-31-5292-1534-X1-5292-1531-510.56687/9781529215335(CKB)5590000000430038(MiAaPQ)EBC6427035(OCoLC)1231205862(MdBmJHUP)muse95865(StDuBDS)EDZ0002592796(UkCbUP)CR9781529215335(DE-B1597)645581(DE-B1597)9781529215335(ScCtBLL)e5f6d172-73c7-4f4d-ab08-d9197356bda8(EXLCZ)99559000000043003820211203d2021|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAlgorithms and the end of politics how technology shapes 21st century American life /Scott Timcke.cke[electronic resource]1st.Bristol :Bristol University Press,2021.1 online resource (vii, 190 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Policy Press scholarship onlineTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2022).1-5292-1533-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Conclusion: The Fatal Abstractions of Capitalist Rule -- Mystification, rationalization, externalization -- References -- Index -- Back CoverThe retreat from basic descriptions -- Courting disaster -- Institutionalizing hierarchy -- 5 The Whiteness of Communication Studies -- The conception of progress -- Race in America -- Misrecognition and modernity -- Capitalism's extra- economic dimensions -- 6 Misinformation and Ideology -- Popular rhetorics of misinformation -- Ideology and politics -- Reactionary racial agendas -- Externalization -- 7 Testbeds for Authoritarianism -- The reconceptualization of war -- Experimentation on new frontiers -- Blended information warfare -- Technology as the so- called solution to the social questionLiberation is not opaque -- 2 The One- Dimensionality of Data -- Acemoglu and Robinson's econometrics -- The politics of quantities -- Reification, mystification and alienation -- The spector of positivism -- A depoliticization of the social question -- 3 Reactionary Tendencies in the Ruling Class -- Finance and class struggle -- Downplaying class differentiation -- Information robber barons -- Infrastructures for reactionary politics -- Ruling class solidarity -- 4 Platforms of Power -- Staving off class struggle 'from below' -- Democratic socialism was the compromiseFront Cover -- Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st- Century American Life -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Great Simplification -- Computation and the social question -- The limits of progressive neoliberal social theory -- Communication and the end of neoliberal politics -- A material consolidation -- Summary and outlook -- 1 Algorithms and the Critical Theory of Technology -- Data, politics and rights -- The code of capital -- Code as material governance -- Computational reasonThis book is a timely analysis of the growing impact of digital technologies on populism in the US and beyond. Scott Timcke uses Marxist analysis to explore the way digital devices, social networks, data and algorithms, and the technology giants that lie behind them, are changing the way people think about politics and society.Policy Press scholarship online.Information technologySocial aspectsUnited StatesInformation technologySocial aspectsInformation technologyHistory21st centuryAlgorithmsPolitical aspectsAlgorithmsSocial aspectsInformation technologySocial aspectsInformation technologySocial aspects.Information technologyHistoryAlgorithmsPolitical aspects.AlgorithmsSocial aspects.303.483309730905Timcke Scott935283UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910682544803321Algorithms and the end of politics3086972UNINA