Introduction: In the Presence of Algorithms
Stefka Hristova, Soonkwan Hong, and Jennifer Daryl Slack
Chapter 1: Why Do We Need the Concept of Algorithmic Culture?
Jennifer Daryl Slack and Stefka Hristova
Chapter 2: Fetishizing Algorithms and Rearticulating Consumption
Soonkwan Hong
Chapter 3: Monoculturalism, Aculturalism, and Post-Culturalism: The Exclusionary Culture of
Algorithmic Development
Ushnish Sengupta
Chapter 4: “The Spectre of Self-Organization”: Will Algorithms Guide Us towards Truth?
Ravi Sekhar Chakraborty
Chapter 5: Machines of Liberation, Machines of Control: The Ambiguous Roots of Data Capitalism
Reka Patricia Gal
Chapter 6: The Autoimmunitary Violence of the Algorithms of Mourning
Stefka Hristova
Chapter 7: Algorithms, Identity, and Cultural Consequences of Genetic Profiles
Amanda K. Girard
Chapter 8: Technologies of Convenience: An Examination of the Algorithmic Bias in the Input/Output System of Digital Cameras
Joel S. Beatty
Chapter 9: Generative Adversarial Networks: Contemporary Art and/as Algorithm
James MacDevitt
About the Contributors