Technologies of Government by Benjamin Baez (Paperback, 2014)

Technologies of GovernmentPolitics and Power in the \""Information Age\""\nAuthor(s): Benjamin Baez\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781623967925, 978-1623967925\nSynopsis\nIn this book, Baez examines a series of governmental technologies that he believes strongly characterize our present. The technologies that he addresses in this book are information, statistics, databases, economy, and accountability. He offers arguments about the role these technologies play in contemporary politics. Specifically, Baez analyzes these technologies in terms of (the sometimes oppositional) rationalities for rendering reality thinkable, and, consequently, governable. These technologies bear on the field of education, but also exceed it. So, while issues in education frame many of the arguments in this book, the books also has usefulness to those outside of field of education.\n\nSpecifically, Baez concludes that the gov.