The Network Inside Out
"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...
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A fascinating study of institutional knowledge practices
List of IllustrationsList of TablesPrefaceA Note on OrthographyList of AbbreviationsCh. 1Inside Out1Ch. 2Sociality Seen Twice23Ch. 3Infinity within the Brackets70Ch. 4Division within the Boundaries92Ch. 5Designing the Facts114Ch. 6Filling in the Action143Ch. 7Network!171Notes185References215Index235
