The Network Inside Out
By Annelise Riles.
Description
"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 pa...
ISBN(s)
0472088327, 9780472088324
