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Metric Power.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137556493
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.2
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Contents:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Introducing Metric Power -- Contextualising Metric Power -- Metrics and Power -- Competition and Metrics -- The Variegated Mechanisms of Competition -- What Should Be Measured and How? Metrics and Judgement -- Verifications and Truth-making -- The Rest of the Book -- References -- 2: Measurement -- Measurements in Context: Faith, Trust, and Reasoning -- The Politics of Number -- The Intensification of the Measurement of Life and the Body -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Circulation -- The Social Life of Methods -- The 'Social Life of Data' and the 'Politics of Circulation' Revisited -- Metrics and Communicative Capitalism -- The Materiality of Circulating Metrics: Where Numbers Get Embodied -- Entering the Unknown and Maybe Even the Unknowable -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Possibility -- Possibility and Inequality: What Are the Chances of That? -- Value, Worth, and Possibility: What Is Valued? What Is Worthwhile? What, Then, Is Possible? -- Possibility and Visibility: What Is Seen and What Is Done -- Probability and the Politics of Possibility -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Conclusion: The Intersections and Imbrications of Metric Power -- References -- 6: Coda: Metric Power and the Production of Uncertainty (How Does Metric Power Make Us Feel?) -- Measurement and the Production of Uncertainty -- Making Measures Affective -- Affective Measures in Action -- Some Closing Reflections on Affective Measures -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Introducing Metric Power -- Contextualising Metric Power -- Metrics and Power -- Competition and Metrics -- The Variegated Mechanisms of Competition -- What Should Be Measured and How? Metrics and Judgement -- Verifications and Truth-making -- The Rest of the Book -- References -- 2: Measurement -- Measurements in Context: Faith, Trust, and Reasoning -- The Politics of Number -- The Intensification of the Measurement of Life and the Body -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Circulation -- The Social Life of Methods -- The 'Social Life of Data' and the 'Politics of Circulation' Revisited -- Metrics and Communicative Capitalism -- The Materiality of Circulating Metrics: Where Numbers Get Embodied -- Entering the Unknown and Maybe Even the Unknowable -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Possibility -- Possibility and Inequality: What Are the Chances of That? -- Value, Worth, and Possibility: What Is Valued? What Is Worthwhile? What, Then, Is Possible? -- Possibility and Visibility: What Is Seen and What Is Done -- Probability and the Politics of Possibility -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Conclusion: The Intersections and Imbrications of Metric Power -- References -- 6: Coda: Metric Power and the Production of Uncertainty (How Does Metric Power Make Us Feel?) -- Measurement and the Production of Uncertainty -- Making Measures Affective -- Affective Measures in Action -- Some Closing Reflections on Affective Measures -- References -- Index.

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