Network Inside Out

Name: Network Inside Out
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ISBN: 9780472088324

ISBN-10: 0472088327

ISBN-13: 9780472088324

Edition: 2001

Authors: Annelise Riles

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"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 work was a group of Fijian bureaucrats and activists preparing for and participating in the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Participants in this meeting and the activities surrounding…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 8/13/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Annelise Riles is the Jack G. Clarke ’52 Professor of Far Eastern Legal Studies, professor of anthropology, and director of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, all at Cornell University.



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Preface


A Note on Orthography


List of Abbreviations



Inside Out



Sociality Seen Twice



Infinity within the Brackets



Division within the Boundaries



Designing the Facts



Filling in the Action



Network!


Notes


References


Index