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Does the Algorithm have the Last Word?

May 10, 2022February 28, 2022 by Richard Veryard

In my post on the performativity of data (August 2021), I looked at some of the ways in which data and information can make something true. In this post, I want to go further. What if an an algorithm can make something final.I’ve just read a very inter…

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Does the Algorithm have the Last Word?

May 10, 2022February 28, 2022 by Richard Veryard

In my post on the performativity of data (August 2021), I looked at some of the ways in which data and information can make something true. In this post, I want to go further. What if an an algorithm can make something final.I’ve just read a very inter…

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On the performativity of data

May 30, 2022August 12, 2021 by Richard Veryard

The philosopher J.L. Austin observed that sometimes words didn’t merely describe reality, they enacted something. A commonly cited example is that when a suitably authorized person pronounces a couple married, it is the speaking of these words that mak…

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