By David Beer
This e-book examines the robust and intensifying function that metrics play in ordering and shaping our daily lives. Focusing upon the interconnections among size, circulate and hazard, the writer explores the interwoven kin among strength and metrics. He attracts upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary assets to put those metrics inside their broader ancient, political and social contexts. extra particularly, he illuminates many of the ways in which metrics implicate our lives – from our paintings, to our intake and our rest, via to our physically exercises and the monetary and organisational buildings that encompass us. Unravelling the ability dynamics that underpin and stay in the so-called monstrous info revolution, he develops the vital suggestion of Metric Power besides a collection of conceptual assets for considering significantly concerning the robust position performed via metrics within the social global at the present time.
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If judgement is bypassed by technique, then the metric becomes powerful in ordering the social world and in decision-making. It is perhaps no surprise that this has not suddenly appeared from nowhere but that ‘rhetorics and theories of competition and competitiveness have been central to neoliberal critique and technical evaluations from the 1930s onwards’ (Davies 2014: 37, italics in the original). The way that competition is theorised, the way it is set up, will have significant consequences for the outcomes and their reverberations.
