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Inquiries Series: Louise Amoore and Nick Seaver talk Cloud Ethics, 20th July 2020
The CDI Inquiries Series launched on the 20th of July 2020, with a discussion between Nick Seaver (Anthropologist, Tufts University), Nate Tkacz (CDI Director, 果冻传媒) and Louise Amoore (Professor of Political Geography, Durham University) about Amoore's new book, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others.
Advance praise for the book:
鈥淏eautifully written and richly documented, Louise Amoore's Cloud Ethics analyzes the workings of algorithms in contemporary society, from those assessing security risks to self-learning and self-programming neural nets. She draws on her extensive interviews with experts in the field to explore the nuances of algorithmic doubt and certainty. Finally, she calls for a new ethics of doubt in which the individual components of algorithms are scrutinized to open new spaces for critique that can 鈥榗rack open鈥� the seemingly certain fabulations of algorithmic calculation. Technically stunning and critically informed, this book is required reading for anyone interested in how to resist the current trends toward algorithmic governmentality.鈥�
— N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Here is a recording of the talk: