Inquiries Series: Louise Amoore and Nick Seaver talk Cloud Ethics, 20th July 2020
The CDI Inquiries Series launched on the 20th of July 2020, with a discussion between Nick Seaver (Anthropologist, Tufts University), Nate Tkacz (CDI Director, Warwick) and Louise Amoore (Professor of Political Geography, Durham University) about Amoore's new book, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others.
Advance praise for the book:
“Beautifully written and richly documented, Louise Amoore's Cloud Ethics analyzes the workings of algorithms in contemporary society, from those assessing security risks to self-learning and self-programming neural nets. She draws on her extensive interviews with experts in the field to explore the nuances of algorithmic doubt and certainty. Finally, she calls for a new ethics of doubt in which the individual components of algorithms are scrutinized to open new spaces for critique that can ‘crack open’ the seemingly certain fabulations of algorithmic calculation. Technically stunning and critically informed, this book is required reading for anyone interested in how to resist the current trends toward algorithmic governmentality.”
— N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles