Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought

This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and digital-era automated governance, which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought, prompting a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic designs.

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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.

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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