The Informational Logic of Human Rights: Network Imaginaries in the Cybernetic Age

Joshua Bowsher

The Informational Logic of Human Rights

Network Imaginaries in the Cybernetic Age

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Joshua Bowsher, University of Sussex

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: June 2023
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781399509923

Subjects:: Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy
Series:: Technicities

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What happens to the cultural politics of human rights when atrocities are rendered calculable, abuses are transformed into data, and victims become vectors? As human rights organizations have increasingly embraced information technologies this 'datafication' of rights has become both a reality and a pressing concern, one inextricably tangled up with questions regarding the broader political valences of human rights.

Combining contemporary social and cultural theory with archival research and original ethnographic work, Josh Bowsher resituates recent critiques of human rights within ongoing theoretical discussions concerning informational capitalism, digital culture and the politics of data.

Critically analysing the contemporary human rights movement as an informational politics, Bowsher provides a new conceptual agenda for both exploring and overcoming the limits of human rights in an era shaped by the data flows, network infrastructures and informational logic of late capitalism.

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The Informational Logic of Human Rights

Network Imaginaries in the Cybernetic Age

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Illustrations
pp vi-vi

Series Editors’ Preface
pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements
pp viii-x

Introduction: Beyond the Neoliberal Critique?
pp 1-27

1 - Cybernetic Capitalism/Informational ‘Politics’
pp 28-71

2 - Seeing Violations as Events: Technologies of Capture and Cutting
pp 72-104

3 - Doing Rights as Indicators: Informatising Social and Economic Rights
pp 105-136

4 - When Violations Become Vectors: Human Rights Work in the Era of Big Data
pp 137-171

5 - After Informational Logic: Rethinking Information/Rethinking Rights
pp 172-199

Index
pp 200-206

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