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04/16/2025 - 04/16/2025 | Berlin

Seeing Like a Platform. An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity

Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a Platform is that the digital era into which we are entering signifies the rise of a new epistemology of power. The book will be presented by the author Justus Uitermark.

While industrial modernity saw society as a machinery to be designed according to detailed blueprints, digital modernity views society as organic and alive, to be herded and nudged through digital infrastructures, AI, and algorithms. Seeing Like a Platform explores the history, meaning, and far-reaching consequences of this epistemological shift.As the mechanic way of seeing before it, the digital erases and leaves out. Seeing Like a Platform examines the contentious rise of complexity thinking across different fields and cases, from social movements to Wikipedia, from digital platforms to city planning, and from social science to the media.

Information on participating / attending:
Anmeldung erforderlich

Date:

04/16/2025 17:00 - 04/16/2025 21:00

Event venue:

Weizenbaum-Institut
Hardenbergstraße 32
10623 Berlin
Berlin
Germany

Target group:

Scientists and scholars, all interested persons

Relevance:

regional

Subject areas:

Information technology, Social studies

Types of events:

Presentation / colloquium / lecture

Entry:

03/19/2025

Sender/author:

Katharina Stefes

Department:

Kommunikation

Event is free:

no

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event78923


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