“Mörtenböck and Mooshammer are explicitly promoting an alternative way of handling data that challenges the current neo-liberal and market-oriented approach. They claim that there is a false dichotomy in between individuals/citizens, organizations, states, and developers/suppliers when it comes to the concept of property and ownership. […] We should consider data as a contingency, and a way and form of relating to world and other. If we are willing to be relational and not consider data as our prop­erty, then data will eventually open for new ways of being together and be foundational for structures and architectures we erect for care to be designed and performed on a macro-level.”

Lars Botin
Department of Planning, Aalborg University/Copenhagen (DK)

 

DATA PUBLICS: PUBLIC PLURALITY IN AN ERA OF DATA DETERMINACY
Hg. Peter Mörtenböck und Helge Mooshammer
Routledge, 2022
ISBN 9780367513443

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„If we accept that data is not at all a form of personal property, something that belongs exclusively to us, but is the result of a collective effort (commons), we can start to think about different forms of care and about different forms of institutions that can take care of these relations.“