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The Network Inside Out
Annelise Riles
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Description for The Network Inside Out
Paperback. A fascinating study of institutional knowledge practices Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
Networks" and other artifacts of institutional life--documents, funding proposals, newsletters, organizational charts--are such ubiquitous aspects of the "information age" that they go unnoticed to most observers. In this work, Annelise Riles takes a sophisticated theoretical approach to examine the aesthetics of these artifacts and practices, to learn what their very forms and formats can tell us about knowledge and legality in today's world.
The immediate subject of Riles's ethnographic work was a group of Fijian bureaucrats and activists preparing for and participating in the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Participants in this meeting and the activities surrounding ... Read more
Networks" and other artifacts of institutional life--documents, funding proposals, newsletters, organizational charts--are such ubiquitous aspects of the "information age" that they go unnoticed to most observers. In this work, Annelise Riles takes a sophisticated theoretical approach to examine the aesthetics of these artifacts and practices, to learn what their very forms and formats can tell us about knowledge and legality in today's world.
The immediate subject of Riles's ethnographic work was a group of Fijian bureaucrats and activists preparing for and participating in the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Participants in this meeting and the activities surrounding ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472088324
SKU
V9780472088324
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About Annelise Riles
Annelise Riles is Assistant Professor, Northwestern University School of Law, Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation.
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