A New Algorithmic Identity: Soft Biopolitics and the Modulation of Control

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 164-181

  Cheney Lippold, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

algorithm; biopolitics; biopower; code; control; Deleuze; Foucault; internet

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555193413     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276411424420     Document Type: Article

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