Algorithmic Modernity
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Algorithmic Modernity
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Author : Morgan G. Ames
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023
Algorithmic Modernity written by Morgan G. Ames and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Computers categories.
Algorithmic Modernity brings together experts in the history of mathematics to create an informed history for readers interested in the social and cultural implications of today's pervasive digital algorithm.
Algorithmic Modernity
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Author : Morgan G. Ames
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Algorithmic Modernity written by Morgan G. Ames and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Algorithms categories.
"The rhetoric of algorithmic neutrality is more alive than ever-why? This volume explores key moments in the historical emergence of algorithmic practices and in the constitution of their credibility and authority since 1500. If algorithms are historical objects and their associated meanings and values are situated and contingent-and if we are to push back against rhetorical claims of otherwise-then the genealogical investigation this book offers is essential to understand the power of the algorithm. The fact that algorithms create the conditions for many of our encounters with social reality contrasts starkly with their relative invisibility. More than other artifacts, algorithms are easily black-boxed. Rather than contingent and modifiable, they are widely seen as obvious and unproblematic-without context and without history. As an antidote, this volume keeps a clear focus on the emergence and continuous reconstitution of algorithmic practices alongside the ascendance of modernity. Its essays highlight the trajectory of an algorithmic modernity, one characterized by attitudes and practices that are best emblematized by the modernist aesthetic and inhuman efficacy of the algorithm. The volume moves from early modern algorithmic practices, centered on heuristics for arithmetic operations, emphasizing ruptures, shifts, and variations across times and cultures. By the age of Enlightenment, the term algorithm had come to signify any process of systematic calculation that could be carried out mechanically, but its meaning and implications are still distant from those familiar to us . It's in the nineteenth and twentieth century that the meaning of algorithm is sharpened through a new discipline and by adding sets of specific conditions-such as the condition of finiteness-which acquire new and crucial significance in the age of digital computing. Throughout, the connection between algorithms and modernity is one of our central concerns. Through detailed historical reconstructions of specific moments, thinkers, and cultural phenomena over the last five hundred years, these essays lead us to the definitions of algorithm most legible today and to the pervasiveness of both algorithmic procedures and rhetoric. This volume contributes a multi-faceted exploration of the genealogies of algorithms, of algorithmic thinking, and of the distinctly modernist faith in algorithms as neutral tools that merely illuminate the natural and social world"--
Outgrowing Modernity
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Author : Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2025-08-12
Outgrowing Modernity written by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-08-12 with Social Science categories.
The inevitable is coming fast. We know it in our bones—and it’s past time to face it. The highly anticipated follow-up to Hospicing Modernity: how we activate responsibility, nurture care, and grow up in the face of collapse—includes reflections, exercises, and prompts Climate collapse, social crisis, the decline of modernity: colonialism, capitalism, and our full-faced denial have ushered in an urgent new era. Hospicing Modernity asked us to grow up, step up, and show up for our communities and the living Earth. Outgrowing Modernity helps us make sense of where we’re going—and deepen what’s possible—in a time of endings. Vanessa Machado De Oliveira helps us face the logics and workings of modernity, bringing us to clear-eyed terms with its expiration. She explores the impacts of colonialism as neurocolonization: an oppressive function of modernity that rewires how we think, act, imagine, and adapt. These impacts are wide-ranging and run deep: they cut us off from our natural ways of building community and seeking pleasure. They choke our ability to cope with trauma and embrace complexity. And they trap us in a state of artificial comfort and denial that keeps us from collectively growing up—even when our existence demands it. This book invites you to interrupt 5 lies that neurocolonization instills in us—beliefs (and behaviors) that have condition us to think we’re owed the following, regardless of others or the planet: Moral and epistemic self-righteous authority Unrestricted, unaccountable autonomy Arbitrating truth, law, and common sense Affirming one's virtues, innocence, and purity Exploitative appropriation and accumulation of various forms of capital In moving away from these ingrained worldviews, we can choose instead to develop 4 capacities necessary to our—and Earth’s—survival: sobriety, maturity, discernment, and responsibility. Machado De Oliveira moves beyond critique into a praxis of strategic disinvestment: one that invites us to recognize what no longer serves us and reinvest in nurturing structures and lifeways that restore our knowledge in the value of life for life’s sake.
Algorithms Of Anxiety
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Author : Anthony Elliott
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2024-07-09
Algorithms Of Anxiety written by Anthony Elliott and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-09 with Social Science categories.
Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind. The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals, communities and organizations can at last take control of the future – anticipating, designing and commanding the future, possibly even with mathematical exactitude. Yet, paradoxically, algorithms have unleashed widespread fears and forebodings about the impact of digital technologies. Whether it’s worries about unemployment, distress about social media’s harmful effects on teenagers, or the fear of intrusive digital surveillance, we live in an age of turbo-charged anxiety where the prophecies of algorithms are increasingly enmeshed with fundamental disruption and anxieties about the future. In this book, Anthony Elliott examines how machine learning algorithms are not only transforming global institutions but also rewriting our personal lives. He tells this story through a wide-ranging analysis which takes in ChatGPT, Amazon, the Metaverse, Martin Ford, Netflix, Uber, Bernard Stiegler, Squid Game, Kate Crawford, LaMDA, Byung-Chul Han, autonomous drones, Jean Baudrillard and the automation of warfare. Questioning why people often assume that they need to adopt new technologies in order to lead fulfilling lives, Elliott argues that people may be as much entranced as inspired by their outsourcing of personal decision-making to smart machines.
Algorithms Artificial Intelligence And Beyond
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Author : Dariusz Brzeziński
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-12-11
Algorithms Artificial Intelligence And Beyond written by Dariusz Brzeziński and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-11 with Social Science categories.
This volume brings together eminent scholars from various parts of the world, representing different fields of knowledge in order to explore the social, cultural, political and economic effects of the development of new technologies. On the one hand, the book contextualises the discussion of algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) within the broader framework of the digital revolution, on the other it also examines individual experiences and practices. Moreover, in light of the speed at which algorithms and AI are being incorporated into various aspects of life, contributors also question the ethical implications of their development. The widespread development of AI and algorithmic solutions is one of the most important contemporary phenomena. It has an overwhelming impact on the social and cultural life of the 21st century. In this context, one can point to both exciting examples of the application of algorithms and AI in business and popular culture, as well as the challenges of widening social inequality or the expanding scope of surveillance. The scope of the impact of algorithms and AI makes the formation of new theoretical frameworks vital. This is the aim of this book, which will be of interest to academics within the humanities and social sciences with an interest in technology and the impact of algorithms and AI on society and culture.
Osiris Volume 38
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Author : James Evans
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Osiris Volume 38 written by James Evans and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with History categories.
Perceptively explores the shifting intersections between algorithmic systems and human practices in the modern era. How have algorithmic systems and human practices developed in tandem since 1800? This volume of Osiris deftly addresses the question, dispelling along the way the traditional notion of algorithmic “code” and human “craft” as natural opposites. Instead, algorithms and humans have always acted in concert, depending on each other to advance new knowledge and produce social consequences. By shining light on alternative computational imaginaries, Beyond Craft and Code opens fresh space in which to understand algorithmic diversity, its governance, and even its conservation. The volume contains essays by experts in fields extending from early modern arithmetic to contemporary robotics. Traversing a range of cases and arguments that connect politics, historical epistemology, aesthetics, and artificial intelligence, the contributors collectively propose a novel vocabulary of concepts with which to think about how the history of science can contribute to understanding today’s world. Ultimately, Beyond Craft and Code reconfigures the historiography of science and technology to suggest a new way to approach the questions posed by an algorithmic culture—not only improving our understanding of algorithmic pasts and futures but also unlocking our ability to better govern our present.
Reframing Algorithms
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Author : Francesco Miele
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-06-08
Reframing Algorithms written by Francesco Miele and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-08 with Social Science categories.
This book provides a fully-fledged exploration of science and technology studies (STS) perspective applied to algorithms developed to support care processes. By concentrating on algorithmic technologies for supporting processes of social and health care, the book intersects topics connected to technoscientific innovation and specifically digital transformation for health care. By offering different attempts of deconstructing algorithmic technologies, the book provides a landmark reference for those interested in undertaking research focused on areas connected to algorithmic decision-making for health care. The book will be an invaluable reference for scholars interested in the STS debate and related fields (e.g.,human–computer interaction, computer supported cooperative work, participatory design, and sociology of health and medicine). This book responds to a growing interest in the application of algorithms’ to local and national care systems. The book balances theoretical and empirical analysis bringing together experienced and early-career scholars. This book will be of interest to researchers in STS as well as healthcare professionals and managers as some of the topics covered help to critically reconsider some facets of planning through algorithmic technologies supporting the practice of healthcare and decision-making.
D H Lawrence Technology And Modernity
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Author : Indrek Männiste
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2019-02-07
D H Lawrence Technology And Modernity written by Indrek Männiste and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
While the dehumanizing effects of technology, modernity, and industrialization have been widely recognized in D. H. Lawrence's works, no book-length study has been dedicated to this topic. This collection of newly commissioned essays by a cast of international scholars fills a genuine void and investigates Lawrence's peculiar relationship with modern technology and modernity in its many and varied aspects. Addressing themes such as pastoral vs. industrial, mining, war, robots, ecocriticism, technologies of the self, film, poetic devices of technology, entertainment, and many others, these essays help to reevaluate Lawrence's complicated standing within the modernist literary tradition and reveal the true theoretical wealth of a writer whose whole life and work, according to T.S. Eliot, "was an assertion of what the modern world has lost."
Platforms Algorithms And Ai Issues And Hypotheses In The Mediatization Perspective
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Author : Jairo Ferreira
language : en
Publisher: FACOS-UFSM
Release Date : 2024-12-25
Platforms Algorithms And Ai Issues And Hypotheses In The Mediatization Perspective written by Jairo Ferreira and has been published by FACOS-UFSM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-25 with Art categories.
This book is one of the results of the V International Seminar on Mediatization and Social Processes, held in 2022, at UFSM. The e-book edition of the Debate Panels from the V Seminar is available not only at the collection of the project (https://www.midiaticom.org/e-books/) but also of FACOS UFSM (http://www.ufsm.br/editoras/facos/publicacoes/). The works from the WG unfolded in two bibliographic productions, available at the OJS platform, with ISBN: a) Expanded abstracts (142): https://midiaticom.org/anais/index.php/seminario-midiatizacao-resumos/issue/view/16; b) Full articles (33): https://www.midiaticom.org/seminario-midiatizacao/anais-de-artigos-do-v-seminario/. In five editions, these publications were accessed by 102 thousand researchers and users worldwide. In epistemological, methodological and empirical research terms, the V Seminar adds to the important collection for doctors’, masters’ and undergraduate’s research, besides serving as reference to the interlocutions of researchers involved in the research lineage in which it stands, according to what the metrics show: 166 listeners; 119 expositors in 12 working groups; 388 certificates emitted by UFSM/MIDIATICOM. We reiterate our acknowledgment to CAPES, FAPERGS, CNPq and STINT (Sweden) for the financial aid, essential to the viability of this proposal of conversation based on the theoretical and empirical research conducted by its participants. All of this would be impossible without the endorsement of POSCOM and UFSM, and the collective work of the Organizing Committee and Midiaticom. A hug of gratitude.
Making Sense Of Ai
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Author : Anthony Elliott
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2021-09-23
Making Sense Of Ai written by Anthony Elliott and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-23 with Science categories.
Industrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google’s algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intelligence into public debate. Why is AI the source of such intense controversy and what are its economic, political, social and cultural consequences? Tracing the changing fortunes of artificial intelligence, Elliott develops a systematic account of how automated intelligent machines impact different spheres and aspects of public and private life. Among the issues discussed are the automation of workforces, surveillance capitalism, warfare and lethal autonomous weapons, the spread of racist robots and the automation of social inequalities. Elliott also considers the decisive role of AI in confronting global risks and social futures, including global pandemics such as COVID-19, and how smart algorithms are impacting the search for energy security and combating climate change. Making Sense of AI provides a judiciously comprehensive account of artificial intelligence for those with little or no previous knowledge of the topic. It will be an invaluable book both for students in the social sciences and humanities and for general readers.