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Algorithms and the End of Politics How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life
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Algorithms and the End of Politics How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life / Scott Timcke.
ISBN
9781529215335
1529215331
9781529215328
1529215323
9781529215311
Edition
1st.
Publication
Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Summary
This 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.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 12, 2021
Contents
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
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Electronic books
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