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Title
Metric power / David Beer.
Author
Beer, David, 1977- author.
ISBN
9781137556493 (electronic book)
1137556498 (electronic book)
9781137556486
1137556498 (electronic book)
9781137556486
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
P91.3
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.2072
Summary
This book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility, the author explores the interwoven relations between power and metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources to place these metrics within their broader historical, political and social contexts. More specifically, he illuminates the various ways that metrics implicate our lives - from our work, to our consumption and our leisure, through to our bodily routines and the financial and organisational structures that surround us. Unravelling the power dynamics that underpin and reside within the so-called big data revolution, he develops the central concept of Metric Power along with a set of conceptual resources for thinking critically about the powerful role played by metrics in the social world today. .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Metric power.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introducing metric power
Chapter 2. Measurement
Chapter 3. Circulation
Chapter 4. Possibility
Chapter 5. Conclusion: The intersections and imbrications of metric power
Chapter 6. Coda... Metric power and the production of uncertainty.(how does metric power make us feel?) .
Chapter 2. Measurement
Chapter 3. Circulation
Chapter 4. Possibility
Chapter 5. Conclusion: The intersections and imbrications of metric power
Chapter 6. Coda... Metric power and the production of uncertainty.(how does metric power make us feel?) .