Cloud Ethics

Louise Amoore

Published by Duke University Press 2020

Cloud Ethics

Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others

Louise Amoore

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478009276

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About this book

Louise Amoore examines how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society, proposing what she calls cloud ethics as a way to hold algorithms accountable by engaging with the social and technical conditions under which they emerge and operate.

Author information

Louise Amoore is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University and author of The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security beyond Probability, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

-- N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

-- Caren Kaplan, author of Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Politics and Ethics in the Age of Algorithms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1. Condensation
1. The Cloud Chambers: Condensed Data and Correlative Reason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2. The Learning Machines: Neural Networks and Regimes of Recognition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Part 2. Attribution
3. The Uncertain Author: Writing and Attribution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
4. The Madness of Algorithms: Aberration and Unreasonable Acts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Part 3. Ethics
5. The Doubtful Algorithm: Ground Truth and Partial Accounts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
6. The Unattributable: Strategies for a Cloud Ethics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: machine learning; algorhythmic thinking

eBook

Published: September 21, 2020
ISBN: 9781478009276