Anti-Authoritarian Metrics: Recursivity as a strategy for post-capitalism
David Adam Banks
Reviewer A:
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Recommendation: Accept.
Reviewer B:
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Recommendation: Resubmit for review.
Reviewer C:
Please, comment on the most relevant aspects (positive points and areas to improve) of the reviewed article.
The essay does a lot of work. As part of theorizing “recursivity” the author 1) locates the proliferation of efficiency metric and discourse via Weber’s rationalization of the world, 2) draws on STS studies to link efficiency to capitalist development and technological evolution, 3) shows the importance/role of generative justice in relation to the historical decoupling of concerns over social-well being from economic analysis, 4) discusses recursivity and efficiency in relation to the historical enclosure of the commons, and 5) traces recursivity to the utopian and anarchist beginnings of urban planning.
Would you suggest any changes or make any recommendations to improve the quality of the article?
As I suggest in the attached comments, I would simply like to see more explication of how recursivity might work in practice as both an analytic and as a performative metric.
Recommendation: Accept.
Reviewer D:
Please, comment on the most relevant aspects (positive points and areas to improve) of the reviewed article.
This article submitted for Teknokultura is a very interesting introduction and review of the conceptual political (and practical) uses of ‘recursivity’. It provides a highly elaborated account of the notion, and situates this historically. A very suitable article for Teknokultura
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Recommendation: Accept.
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