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Beyond Capital: Values, Commons, Computing, and the Search for a Viable Future - Couverture rigide

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Hakken, David; Teli, Maurizio; Andrews, Barbara

 
9781138924444: Beyond Capital: Values, Commons, Computing, and the Search for a Viable Future
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ISBN 10 : 113892444X ISBN 13 : 9781138924444
Editeur : Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

The financial/social cataclysm beginning in 2007 ended notions of a "great moderation" and the view that capitalism had overcome its systemic tendencies to crisis. The subsequent failure of contemporary social formations to address the causes of the crisis gives renewed impetus to better analysis in aid of the search for a better future. This book contributes to this search by reviving a broad discussion of what we humans might want a post-capitalist future to be like. It argues for a comparative anthropological critique of capital notions of value, thereby initiating the search for a new set of values, as well as identifying a number of selected computing practices that might evoke new values. It articulates a suggestive set of institutions that could support these new values, and formulates a group of measurement practices usable for evaluating the proposed institutions. The book is grounded in contemporary social science, political theory, and critical theory. It aims to leverage the possibility of alternative futures implied by some computing practices while avoiding hype and technological determinism, and uses these computing practices to explicate one possible way to think about the future.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Hakken is Professor of Social Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Bloomington, and Fellow at the University of Trento.

Barbara Andrews is a writer and an independent researcher on arts, education, and technology.

Maurizio Teli is a Research Fellow in the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
113892444X
ISBN 13 
9781138924444
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
258
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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