Seeing Like a Platform av Petter (University of Amsterdam Netherlands) Tornberg, Justus (University of Amsterdam Netherlands) Uitermark

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<p>Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of <i>Seeing Like a Platform</i> is that digital technology brings new metaphors through which power operates. While industrial modernity saw society as a machinery to be designed according to detailed blueprints, <i>digital modernity </i>views society as organic and alive, to be herded and nudged through digital infrastructures, AI, and algorithms.</p><p><i>Seeing Like a Platform</i> explores the history, meaning and far-reaching consequences of this epistemological shift. From social movements to Wikipedia, from digital platforms to city planning, from social science to media, society is being redefined by ideas from complexity science. While complexity offers a vision of a self-organized society freed from hierarchies and overbearing bureaucracies ¿ it simultaneously enables new forms of domination and control.</p><p>Through theoretical reflections and