Codes and Codings in Crisis: Signification, Performativity and Excess

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3-23

  Mackenzie, Adrian ^a   Vurdubakis, Theo ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

code; conduct; crisis; performativity; software

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555185028     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276411424761     Document Type: Article

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