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Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought

Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice
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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 advance perennially embeds corrosive effects on social relations and relations of production, recognizing variation across contexts and relative to entrenched societal hierarchies of race and other axes of difference and their intersections. Societal tolerance, despite abundant evidence for harmful effects of digital technologies, requires attention. The book explains blindness to social injustice by technocratic thinking delivered through education as well as truths embraced in the data sciences coupled with governance in universities and the private sector that protect these truths from critique. Institutional inertia suggests benefits of communitarianism, which strives for change emanating from civil society. Scaling postcapitalist communitarian values through communitybased peer production presents opportunities. However, enduring problems require critical reflection, continual revision of strategies, and active participation among diverse community citizens. This book is written with critical geographic sensibilities for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and graduate and undergraduate students in the social sciences, humanities, and data sciences.

Author 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.
Release date Australia
December 30th, 2022
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  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Pages
174
ISBN-13
9780367625801
Product ID
35917640

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