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Algorithms and the End of Politics: How Technology Shapes 21st- Century American Life
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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
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
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
Conclusion: The Fatal Abstractions of Capitalist Rule
Mystification, rationalization, externalization
References
Index
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