Friedland, Roger
Lorraine Daston. Rules: A short history of what we live by - Administrative Science Quarterly - 69(2), Jun, 2024: p.NP34-NP36
Lorraine Daston, a former director of the Max Planck Institute, has written a magisterial history of Western rules that tracks both their changing meaning and their primary dimensions across an astonishing variety of domains to which they apply, from cookery and trash bins, to science and the authority of sovereigns and God. Composed with clean lines of argument and lucid exposition, Rules: A Short History of What We Live By gives us a trajectory and a frame with which we might ponder both the changing and the invariant logics by which practices are organized and organization is practiced. As we face an uncertain algorithmic future and an astounding machined so-called intelligence that identifies and executes practices that even programmers neither anticipate nor fully understand, this book will provide some sense of the history of our ruling passions for those of us lacking the technical knowledge to even begin to understand what should be done in the face of machine learning and artificial intelligence, on the one hand, and of assaults on democracy, on the other. Given the centrality of rules to the existence, coherence, and productivity of those practices that constitute organizations, this volume should be of interest to all those who seek to understand organizational formation, form, and reformation.- Reproduced
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00018392241227435
Lorraine Daston. Rules: A short history of what we live by - Administrative Science Quarterly - 69(2), Jun, 2024: p.NP34-NP36
Lorraine Daston, a former director of the Max Planck Institute, has written a magisterial history of Western rules that tracks both their changing meaning and their primary dimensions across an astonishing variety of domains to which they apply, from cookery and trash bins, to science and the authority of sovereigns and God. Composed with clean lines of argument and lucid exposition, Rules: A Short History of What We Live By gives us a trajectory and a frame with which we might ponder both the changing and the invariant logics by which practices are organized and organization is practiced. As we face an uncertain algorithmic future and an astounding machined so-called intelligence that identifies and executes practices that even programmers neither anticipate nor fully understand, this book will provide some sense of the history of our ruling passions for those of us lacking the technical knowledge to even begin to understand what should be done in the face of machine learning and artificial intelligence, on the one hand, and of assaults on democracy, on the other. Given the centrality of rules to the existence, coherence, and productivity of those practices that constitute organizations, this volume should be of interest to all those who seek to understand organizational formation, form, and reformation.- Reproduced
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00018392241227435