Hi folks, Anyone can recommend readings helping in conceptualising algorithms as "old" infrastructures or "living" archives. I am studying more particularly large-scale decision-making systems that relies on "old" infrastructures of the state. Ex: algorithms used to calculate taxes, the work mobility of civil servants, allocation of students into schools, etc. I am interested about two things : - while algorithms are sometimes defined as innovative and somehow "new" they actually relies on "old" infrastructures. (the temporality of infrastructures) - the infrastructural capacity of the state and the way it maintain an opacity on these systems. (the attractiveness and dangers of algorithmic transparency) Any recommendation from infrastructure studies ? critical algorithm studies ? sociology/anthropology of the state and civil services ? Many thanks, Loup -- *Loup Cellard*PhD Student - Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/>, Warwick University, Coventry, UK. <http://www.loupcellard.com>Email : loupcellard@gmail.com Mobile : +33 7 87 00 84 22 Site Web : loupcellard.com <http://www.loupcellard.com/> Twitter : @CellardLoup <https://twitter.com/CellardLoup>