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Metric Power (ePub eBook) 1st ed. 2016


Metric Power (ePub eBook) 1st ed. 2016

eBook by Beer, David

Metric Power (ePub eBook)

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ISBN:
9781137556493
Publication Date:
30 Jul 2016
Edition:
1st ed. 2016
Publisher:
Springer Nature
Imprint:
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages:
223 pages
Format:
eBook
For delivery:
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Metric Power (ePub eBook)

Description

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 O 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.

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?)

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