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| Varying Form of Title: | Network imaginaries in the cybernetic age
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| ISBN: | 9781399509923
1399509926
9781399509930
1399509934
9781399509909
139950990X
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Josh Bowsher is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex, following a recently completed Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Brunel University. Broadly speaking, Josh's research explores the often-fraught relationships between human rights discourses, contemporary capitalism and radical change.
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| Summary: | "What happens to the cultural politics of human rights when atrocities are rendered calculable, abuses are transformed into data, and victims become vectors? As human rights organizations have increasingly embraced information technologies this 'datafication' of rights has become both a reality and a pressing concern, one inextricably tangled up with questions regarding the broader political valences of human rights. Combining contemporary social and cultural theory with archival research and original ethnographic work, Josh Bowsher resituates recent critiques of human rights within ongoing theoretical discussions concerning informational capitalism, digital culture and the politics of data. Critically analysing the contemporary human rights movement as an informational politics, Bowsher provides a new conceptual agenda for both exploring and overcoming the limits of human rights in an era shaped by the data flows, network infrastructures and informational logic of late capitalism."--
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| Other form: | Print version: Bowsher, Josh. Informational logic of human rights. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] 139950990X
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