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calculable Adjective able to be computed or estimated
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| Beholden to the values of calculability and predictability, the future that the patron desperately listens for should sound like the smallest possible variation of the past, a further step on a developmental line drawn from the past through the present into the future. Calculative selves refers to the distinctive social way in which the language and processes of calculation, such as financial accounting, bear upon the actions of others, installing forms of individualised calculability into the workplace. The emphasis on calculability conveniently "restricts arguments to technologies that are imminent, and for which the effects are well known" (174), meaning that there is little inclination to ban anything because one never knows how it will work out: only with actual implementation of the technology will the ethical issues be evident, if there are any. |
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