At other times, the algorithm is less identifiable; yet, the question of what and where it is looms large. What is at stake, then, in addressing the ontological politics of algorithms is not so much an understanding of what exactly the algorithm is or the moments in which it acts (although this is important, too) but, rather, those moments in which they are enacted and made to mater as part of specific contexts and situations.
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