Standards recipes for reality
The power of standards -- Standardizing the world -- From standardization to standardized differentiation -- Certified, accredited, licensed, approved -- Standards, ethics, and justice -- Standards and democracy -- Conclusions : another road to serfdom?
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, Mass u.a.
MIT Press
2013
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| Ausgabe: | First MIT paperback edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | Infrastructures series
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The power of standards -- Standardizing the world -- From standardization to standardized differentiation -- Certified, accredited, licensed, approved -- Standards, ethics, and justice -- Standards and democracy -- Conclusions : another road to serfdom? This book investigates standards as the recipes that shape not only the physical world, but human social interactions. The author outlines the history of formal standards and describes how modern science came to be associated with the moral-technical project of standardization of both people and things. The author also explores how standards are intimately connected to power, empowering some but disempowering others |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. [321] - 351 |
| Beschreibung: | 390 Seiten Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780262525053 978-0-262-52505-3 9780262016384 978-0-262-01638-4 |