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Description for Metric Power
Hardback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; JFFP; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
This book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility, the author explores the interwoven relations between power and metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources to place these metrics within their broader historical, political and social contexts. More specifically, he illuminates the various ways that metrics implicate our lives - from our work, to our consumption and our leisure, through to our bodily routines and the financial and organisational structures that surround us. Unravelling the power dynamics that underpin and ... Read more
This book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility, the author explores the interwoven relations between power and metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources to place these metrics within their broader historical, political and social contexts. More specifically, he illuminates the various ways that metrics implicate our lives - from our work, to our consumption and our leisure, through to our bodily routines and the financial and organisational structures that surround us. Unravelling the power dynamics that underpin and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137556486
SKU
V9781137556486
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Ref
99-15
About David Beer
David Beer is Reader in Sociology at the University of York, UK.
Reviews for Metric Power
The book offers an extensive and well-referenced account of how metrics have begun to infiltrate social and cultural life. It is a text that will be widely used and discussed and its ideas displayed on whiteboards in classrooms across the world ... Beer's book expands the concept of measurement across a set of literatures in cultural studies, sociology and philosophy. ... Read more