The Smartness Mandate
$73.86
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
7 March 2023
Summary
Over the last half century, “smartness” – the drive for ubiquitous computing – has become a mandate, a new mode of managing and governing politics, economics, and the environment. Smart phones. Smart cars. Smart homes. Smart cities. The imperative to make our world ever smarter in the face of increasingly complex challenges raises several questions: What is this “smartness mandate”? How has it emerged, and what does it say about our evolving way of understanding – and managing – reality? How …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262544511 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262544512 |
| Author: | Orit Halpern, Robert Mitchell |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 7 March 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Orit Halpern
Orit Halpern is Lighthouse Professor and Chair of Digital Cultures and Societal Change at Technische Universität Dresden. She is the author of Beautiful Data- A History of Vision and Reason since 1945.
Robert Mitchell is Chair and Professor of English, as well as Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory, at Duke University. His books include, most recently, Infectious Liberty- Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism.
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