Algorithmic Realism: Communal Production in the Age of Ubiquitous Computation

Even after two hundred years of systemic speculation, no convincing alternative to the market order manifested. In problematising the idea of a conscious control over economic matters, the dissertation project interrogates the cipher of the plan from an epistemic and political perspective. As today forecasting and optimisation algorithms promise to come to terms with the complexity of the task, its focus lays on the societal role of scientific knowledge in orchestrating society's material flows.