Deconstructing the algorithmic sublime
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This special theme contextualizes, examines, and ultimately works to dispel the feelings of "sublime" that much of the contemporary public discours... as mentioned in this paper, which is the feeling of awe and terror that overrides rational thought.Abstract:
This special theme contextualizes, examines, and ultimately works to dispel the feelings of “sublime”—of awe and terror that overrides rational thought—that much of the contemporary public discours...read more
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From Counterculture To Cyberculture Stewart Brand The Whole Earth Network And The Rise Of Digital Utopianism
TL;DR: The whole earth network and the rise of digital utopianism as mentioned in this paper is a classic example of counterculture to cyberculture stewart brand and it has been used in a number of cyber-attacks.
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The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace:
TL;DR: Lalich as mentioned in this paper used interviews with former Heaven's Gate and DWP members, literature and media reports on and by the two groups, and an adequate theoretical discussion to understand why people join cults.
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Geographies of Algorithmic Violence: Redlining the Smart City
TL;DR: In this paper, a proprietary market value assessment that is being used to guide development in cities across the United States is examined, and the authors argue that the racial, infrastructural, and epistemological violence associated with this evaluation can potentially lead to a new kind of municipal redlining.
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European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits
Siddharth Sareen,Harriet Thomson,Sergio Tirado Herrero,João Gouveia,Ingmar Lippert,Aleksandra Lis +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose an analytical framework with five dimensions of energy poverty metrology, and illustrate it using multi-scalar cases from three European countries, including historical trajectories, data flattening, contextualised identification, new representation and policy uptake.
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Algorithms as folding: Reframing the analytical focus
Francis Lee,Jess Bier,Jeffrey Christensen,Lukas Engelmann,Claes-Fredrik Helgesson,Robin Williams +5 more
TL;DR: The aim of this approach is to broaden the common analytical focus on algorithms as biased and opaque black boxes, and to instead highlight the many relations that algorithms are interwoven with, to highlight how algorithms fold heterogeneous things.
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The extended case method
TL;DR: In this article, the authors elaborate and codify the extended case method, which deploys participant observation to locate everyday life in its extralocal and historical context, which is the Siamese twin of positive science that proscribes reactivity, but upholds reliability, replicability, and representativeness.
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
TL;DR: Turner's From Counterculture to Cyberculture as discussed by the authorsocusing on a group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs, Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network, describes the transformation from a threat during the Cold War into a means of achieving personal freedom in an emerging digital uptopia.
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The Mangle of Practice: Agency and Emergence in the Sociology of Science
TL;DR: In this paper, a view of science as a field of emergent human and material agency reciprocally engaged by means of a dialectic of resistence and accommodation is presented, and a constructive clarification of the issues is provided.
From Counterculture To Cyberculture Stewart Brand The Whole Earth Network And The Rise Of Digital Utopianism
TL;DR: The whole earth network and the rise of digital utopianism as mentioned in this paper is a classic example of counterculture to cyberculture stewart brand and it has been used in a number of cyber-attacks.