• Title Engines of Order: A Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques
• Author(s) Bernhard Rieder
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press (June 11, 2020)
• License(s): CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
• Hardcover 352 pages
• eBook PDF (353 pages)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9462986193
• ISBN-13: 978-9462986190
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Book Description

Software has become a key component of contemporary life and algorithms that rank, classify, or recommend are everywhere.

Building on the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon and the cultural techniques tradition, this book examines the constructive and cumulative character of software and retraces the historical trajectories of a series of algorithmic techniques that have become the building blocks for contemporary practices of ordering.

Developed in opposition to centuries of library tradition, these techniques instantiate dynamic, perspectivist, and interested forms of knowing. Embedded in technical infrastructures and economic logics, they have become engines of order that transform how we arrange information, ideas, and people.

This book offers an exciting archaeology of the algorithmic techniques that made these feats possible. It is a unique book that mixes a high level of theorization with a detailed examination of modes of expression in the form of technique.

• Bernhard Rieder is Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and a collaborator with the Digital Methods Initiative.

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