Machineries of Similarity and Difference by David Ribes PAPERBACK 9780262553599

Name: Machineries of Similarity and Difference by David Ribes PAPERBACK 9780262553599
Brand: MIT Press Ltd

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An examination of three research infrastructures over three decades as they sought to support studies of HIV/AIDS across dramatic changes to the disease, the science, and its politics.\nIn Machineries of Similarity and Difference, David Ribes theorizes interoperability, or how to make different things work together. For the last 30 years, standardization has been the dominant social scientific motif for understanding coordination and collaboration across time and space. But across those years much has changed, in part through computational and other technical advances, in part through a new orientation to the value of similarity and difference. Interoperation is an ascendent social form.\nTo examine the production of equivalency, the author offers a book-length extended case study of three\n\nMachineries of Similarity and Difference\nAIDS from Its Research Infrastructures\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracke;