Paul O'Connor: Technocracy | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781032561622 | Technocracy | Knowledge and Power in the Information Age | O'Connor

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Beschreibung

In what is routinely described as a 'knowledge society', this book argues that contemporary knowledge is systematically filtered and distorted by the requirements of the bureaucratic-managerial organisations that constitute the structural core of hypermodernity.

Über den Autor

Paul O'Connor is Associate Professor of Sociology at United Arab Emirates University in Abu Dhabi. He is the author of Home: The Foundations of Belonging and the co-editor of The Technologisation of the Social: A Political Anthropology of the Digital Machine, Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease: Technocratic Mimetism, and the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Anthropology.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The Codetermination of Knowledge and Social Organisation 2. The Growth of Formal Organisation 3. The Ascendance of Technique 4. Managerial Subjectification and Knowledge 5. Detachment and Instrumentalism 6. Problematisation and Parasitism 7. Informationalisation 8. Domains of Equivalence 9. Quasi-Objects and their Institutionalisations Conclusion: Beyond the Second Reality

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781032561622
ISBN-10:	1032561629
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	O'Connor, Paul
Hersteller:	Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Paul O'Connor
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.03.2026
Gewicht:	0,342 kg