Category Archives: Louise Amoore

My favourite academic books of 2020

Posted on December 31, 2020 by stuartelden

As with previous years, these are a list of academic books published this year which I read and appreciated. This means that good books which I haven’t yet read don’t feature, and I will of course miss many. Several of … Continue reading →

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Books received – Tesserach, Lévi-Strauss, Propp, Lukács, Ginzburg, Amoore, Dumézil, Harcourt, Sarkis

Posted on October 5, 2020 by stuartelden

Some books bought second-hand, and some others from publishers, including Louise Amoore, Cloud Ethics; Bernard Harcourt, Critique and Praxis and Hashim Sarkis, Roi Salgueiro Barrio and Gabriel Kozlowski, The World as an Architectural Project.

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Louise Amoore, “Why ‘Ditch the algorithm’ is the future of political protest”, The Guardian

Posted on August 24, 2020 by stuartelden

Louise Amoore, “Why ‘Ditch the algorithm’ is the future of political protest“, The Guardian I was away last week, and followed the news of A-level results, GCSEs, BTECs and the impact on students and universities from a distance. Whether or … Continue reading →

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Louise Amoore: Our lives with algorithms (video)

Posted on April 17, 2020 by stuartelden

From detecting anomalies in the landscape of medical images to drone footage to the influencing of elections, machine learning algorithms are transforming radically how we make sense in society. Deep neural net algorithms condense the features of a scene to … Continue reading →

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Louise Amoore, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others – Duke UP, May 2020 (and link to Introduction)

Posted on March 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Louise Amoore, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others – Duke University Press, May 2020. Great to see this book is imminent – the Introduction can be read here. In Cloud Ethics Louise Amoore examines how machine … Continue reading →

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Books received – Story, TCS, Gombrich and Eribon, Crewe, Derrida, Kantorowicz

Posted on April 18, 2019 by stuartelden

 Brett Story, Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America; the new issue of Theory, Culture and Society, ‘Thinking with Algorithms‘, edited by Louise Amoore; Ernst Gombrich and Didier Eribon, A Lifelong Interest; Louise Crewe, Lords of Parliament: Manners, Rituals and Politics; Jacques Derrida, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Low, Amoore & Piotukh, de Bodt, TCS

Posted on June 13, 2017 by stuartelden

Some recently received books, mainly in recompense for review work, along with Saskia de Bodt’s Children of Holland and the new issue of Theory, Culture and Society on ‘Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene’.

Posted in Jacques Lacan, Louise Amoore, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Setha Low, Theory, Culture and Society, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Louise Amoore on ‘Cloud geographies: Computing, data, sovereignty’ in Progress in Human Geography

Posted on August 17, 2016 by stuartelden

Louise Amoore on ‘Cloud geographies: Computing, data, sovereignty’ in Progress in Human Geography (requires subscription). The architecture of cloud computing is becoming ever more closely intertwined with geopolitics – from the sharing of intelligence data, to border controls, immigration decisions, … Continue reading →

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Call For Papers – ‘Thinking with Algorithms’, Durham, 26-27 Feb 2015

Posted on November 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Call For Papers for Workshop ‘Thinking with Algorithms: Cognition and Computation in the Work of N. Katherine Hayles’ Gala Theatre, Durham, 26-27 February 2015 Confirmed keynote speakers: Katherine Hayles (Duke University) Donald Mackenzie (Edinburgh University) Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths, University of … Continue reading →

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Authority and Political Technology workshop – keynote audio recordings

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Recordings from the recent Authority and Political Technologies workshop are now available at the Warwick website – Christian Borch, Luciana Parisi, Amade M’Charek, Louise Amoore, Costas Douzinas and AbdouMaliq Simone.

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