Figures of entanglement: special issue introduction

Gamble, Christopher N.; Hanan, Joshua S.

doi:10.1080/15358593.2016.1221992

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“…Algorithms, we have suggested, cannot be studied as entities, but only in and as their relations to other elements in various figurations. Following Barad, Gamble and Hanan (2016: 266) assert that ‘there is no outside of matter just as there is no outside of meaning’. The meaning of any algorithm is its organizational figuration, which should be studied without privileging any one of the elements involved.…”

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Algorithms as organizational figuration: The sociotechnical arrangements of a fintech start-up

2021

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Building on critical approaches that understand algorithms in terms of communication, culture and organization, this paper offers the supplementary conceptualization of algorithms as organizational figuration, defined as material and meaningful sociotechnical arrangements that develop in spatiotemporal processes and are shaped by multiple enactments of affordance–agency relations. We develop this conceptualization through a case study of a Danish fintech start-up that uses machine learning to create opportunities for sustainable pensions investments. By way of ethnographic and literary methodology, we provide an in-depth analysis of the dynamic trajectory in and through which the organization gives shape to and takes shape from its key algorithmic tool, mapping the shifting sociotechnical arrangements of the start-up, from its initial search for a viable business model through the development of the algorithm to the public launch of its product. On this basis, we argue that conceptualizing algorithms as organizational figuration enables us to detail not only what algorithms do but also what they are.

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Section: Algorithms As Organizational Figurationmentioning

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Algorithms as organizational figuration: The sociotechnical arrangements of a fintech start-up

2021

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“…Karen Barad (as cited in Gamble, 2016) My relationship to Ground is explored through the provocation of 'entanglement'. As expanded on in the literary context, Barad's definition of entanglement was used as a design driver, as a way of communicating dynamics of the relationship between myself and the ground.…”

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Drawing ground

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Aotearoa now recognizes non-human natural entities as having personhood: Te Urewera, Whanganui Awa, Taranaki Maunga. My motivation in this work is to understand my relationship to the living, breathing ground, to draw out architecture through a collaboration between me and Ground as a person. As Pākehā, this relationship feels turbulent as I don’t whakapapa to a particular soil in Aotearoa. I have explored my relationship with the Ground through drawing, as a way to expand and reveal the turbulent currents in my position, and these have become infused in graphite on paper. Drawing Ground is a design-led research project with abstract drawing investigations exploring connections between Ground and my body, culminating in the re-sketching of the historic Dominion Museum: the building’s solidity is dissolved and is reimagined through intense, turbulent sketches, prompting thinking about the Ground beneath the building. The architecture that results captures a journey of belonging, entangled relations and identity through drawing. The design encourages an ontological relational shift in thinking toward the Ground and proposes an alternate way of collaborating with the Ground through a process of design. Throughout this entire process critical reflection on the various drawings and design iterations inform a discussion of the research focus and question. This thesis aims to speculate on architecture’s role within this complex relationship, how it can be agential in an ontological shift for Pākehā, and how it might compel a relational approach to architecture through radical design practice.

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The Body: An Abstract and Actual Rhetorical Concept

Chávez¹

2018

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

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Figures of entanglement: special issue introduction

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Algorithms as organizational figuration: The sociotechnical arrangements of a fintech start-up

Algorithms as organizational figuration: The sociotechnical arrangements of a fintech start-up

Drawing ground

The Body: An Abstract and Actual Rhetorical Concept

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