Algorithms and Subjectivity: The Subversion of Critical Knowledge

In: Routledge Focus on Digital Media and Culture Ser.

Abstract

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Subjectivity redundant -- 1. Can algorithmic knowledge be critical? -- Algorithms and you -- Know thyself -- Algorithmic knowledge and human interests -- The performance of algorithmic knowledge -- Subjectivity, algorithms, and privacy -- Interface algorithms -- Subjectivity redundant -- Note -- References -- 2. How algorithms think about humans? -- Media epistemes and the changing conception of the individual -- Seeing the audience in the mass media: The scientific episteme -- Seeing the audience in digital media: The algorithmic episteme -- I User-generated data -- II Inter-connected platforms -- III Algorithms -- Turning data into self: How algorithms see people -- Conclusion: Toward a post-social conception of the individual -- References -- 3. Can algorithms tell us who we are? -- Know thyself, or let algorithms do so -- The selfish ledger: Decoding the self -- The epistemology of the selfish ledger: A summary -- Self, media, knowledge: A historical view -- The personal diary -- Audience and subjectivity: Knowing the self by means of presenting -- Protestantism as an impetus to know -- Between the ledger and the diary -- Conclusion: Knowledge without subjects -- Notes -- References -- 4. Can algorithms make aesthetic judgments? -- Recommendation engines: Automating aesthetic judgment -- Algorithms in culture: Between technical neutrality and political worldview -- Aesthetic judgment and recommendation engines -- I Aesthetic judgment as objective -- II Aesthetic judgment as individualistic -- Arendt's conception of aesthetic judgment and culture -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. Do algorithms have a right to the city? -- Roads, traffic, and spatial politics -- Algorithmic spatiality -- Upholding residents' privileged right to the city.