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Algorithms and the end of politics : how technology shapes 21st century American life / / Scott Timcke.cke [[electronic resource]]
Algorithms and the end of politics : how technology shapes 21st century American life / / Scott Timcke.cke [[electronic resource]]
Autore Timcke Scott
Edizione [1st.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2021
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (vii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 303.483309730905
Collana Policy Press scholarship online
Soggetto topico Information technology - Social aspects - United States
Information technology - Social aspects
Information technology - History - 21st century
Algorithms - Political aspects
Algorithms - Social aspects
ISBN 1-5292-1532-3
1-5292-1534-X
1-5292-1531-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Conclusion: The Fatal Abstractions of Capitalist Rule -- Mystification, rationalization, externalization -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
The 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 question
Liberation 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 compromise
Front 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 reason
Record Nr. UNISA-996524968603316
Timcke Scott  
Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2021
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
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Algorithms and the end of politics : how technology shapes 21st century American life / / Scott Timcke.cke [[electronic resource]]
Algorithms and the end of politics : how technology shapes 21st century American life / / Scott Timcke.cke [[electronic resource]]
Autore Timcke Scott
Edizione [1st.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2021
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (vii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 303.483309730905
Collana Policy Press scholarship online
Soggetto topico Information technology - Social aspects - United States
Information technology - Social aspects
Information technology - History - 21st century
Algorithms - Political aspects
Algorithms - Social aspects
ISBN 1-5292-1532-3
1-5292-1534-X
1-5292-1531-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Conclusion: The Fatal Abstractions of Capitalist Rule -- Mystification, rationalization, externalization -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
The 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 question
Liberation 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 compromise
Front 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 reason
Record Nr. UNINA-9910682544803321
Timcke Scott  
Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2021
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Capital, State, Empire : : The New American Way of Digital Warfare / / Scott Timcke
Capital, State, Empire : : The New American Way of Digital Warfare / / Scott Timcke
Autore Timcke Scott
Pubbl/distr/stampa London : , : University of Westminster Press, , 2018
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource
Collana Critical Digital and Social Media Studies
Soggetto topico Political Science / American Government / State
Political science
ISBN 1-911534-38-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910476827403321
Timcke Scott  
London : , : University of Westminster Press, , 2018
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Capital, State, Empire : The New American Way of Digital Warfare / / Scott Timcke
Capital, State, Empire : The New American Way of Digital Warfare / / Scott Timcke
Autore Timcke Scott
Pubbl/distr/stampa University of Westminster Press, 20180727
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xvii, 187 pages)
Disciplina 303.48/33
Collana CDSMS
Soggetto topico Capitalism - Social aspects - United States
National security - United States
Digital communications - Political aspects
Information society - Political aspects
ISBN 1-911534-37-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910219862803321
Timcke Scott  
University of Westminster Press, 20180727
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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