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Machine Habitus
Toward a Sociology of Algorithms
Massimo Airoldi
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Habitus, c’est un grand mot pour dire quelque chose, je crois, de très complexe. C’est à dire, une espèce de petite machine génératrice – pour une analogie un peu sauvage, un programme d’ordinateur – à partir duquel les gens engendrent des foules des réponses à des foules des situations.
Pierre Bourdieu
Interview with Antoine Spire, 1990
If social order is made of propensities to associate, if to be social is a propensity to associate, then big data conversion events operationalize association in matrices of propensity.
Adrian Mackenzie, 2018
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico for taking part in two interview sessions, in the autumn of 2019 and the summer of 2020, and being a unique source of inspiration. I must also thank Hanan Salam, founder of Women in AI, for her technical clarifications and preliminary comments on this book project, and Debora Pizzimenti, for providing me with further details about the IAQOS experience. A big thanks to Alessandro Gandini, Mauro Barisione, Adam Arvidsson, and Polity’s editors and anonymous reviewers, for their insightful comments and encouragement all the way through. I also thank all my colleagues and students at EM Lyon. Last, a huge thanks to Stefania, my most important person.
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