107th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Black Box

On the Data Blasé, Statistical Imaginaries, and the Cashier-less Bodega

Annual Meeting Proceedings

Author(s): Mark Shepard

The banality of everyday data is a hallmark of the 21st century. At a moment when computational techniques involving big data and machine learning are in the process of parsing all walks of life, we might revisit notions of the gigantic, its transformation of the quantitative into the qualitative, and the corresponding subjectivities produced through this process. The cashier-less bodega provides a context to examine the implications of this new informatics regime.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.20

Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca

ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0