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Engines of Order

A Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques

by Bernhard Rieder

Engines of Order

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Book Description

Software has become a key component of contemporary life and algorithmic techniques that rank, classify, or recommend anything that fits into digital form are everywhere. This book approaches the field of information ordering conceptually as well as historically. Building on the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon and the cultural techniques tradition, it first examines the constructive and cumulative character of software and shows how software-making constantly draws on large reservoirs of existing knowledge and techniques. It then reconstructs the historical trajectories of a series of algorithmic techniques that have indeed become the building blocks for contemporary practices of ordering. Developed in opposition to centuries of library tradition, coordinate indexing, text processing, machine learning, and network algorithms instantiate dynamic, perspectivist, and interested forms of arranging information, ideas, or people. Embedded in technical infrastructures and economic logics, these techniques have become engines of order that transform the spaces they act upon.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Engines of Order
Chapter 2
Rethinking Software
Chapter 3
Software-Making and Algorithmic Techniques
Chapter 4
From Universal Classification to a Postcoordinated Universe
Chapter 5
From Frequencies to Vectors
Chapter 6
Interested Learning
Chapter 7
Calculating Networks: From Sociometry to PageRank

Book Details

Title
Engines of Order
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Published
2020
Pages
353
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13
9789462986190
ISBN10
9462986193
ISBN13 Digital
9789048537419
ISBN10 Digital
904853741X
PDF Size
3.0 MB
License
Open Publication License

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