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Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice
By Nancy Ettlinger
Copyright 2023
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and automated governance, which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought, and prompts a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic designs.
The book situates digital-era problems relative to those of previous sociotechnical milieux and argues that technical... Read more
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Technological Advance across Socio-technical Milieux
3. Pedagogy of Technocracy
4. The ‘Normal Science’ of the Data Sciences and its Governance
5. Scaling Communitarian Practice
6. Conclusion
Biography
Nancy Ettlinger is a Professor of Critical Human Geography at the Ohio State University. Her current research focuses on problems and possibilities of digital life. She has published widely in journals such as New Left Review, Big Data & Society, New Formations, Political Geography, Journal of Economic Geography, and Antipode.
