{"product_id":"close-encounters-andrew-davison-9780231218474","title":"Close Encounters: A Poetic Philosophy of Political Analysis","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat would it look like to approach data with the care and attentiveness that we bring to a poem? Andrew Davison proposes a new philosophy of data modeled on the affective and ethical qualities of the encounter between a reader and a literary text and demonstrates its significance for understanding urgent social and political issues. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a cross-disciplinary engagement with philosophical, literary, and political-theoretical accounts of poetic experience, \u003ci\u003eClose Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the philosophical underpinnings of dominant approaches to data analysis. Instead, Davison argues, social scientists should treat their data with the same close attention and ethical responsibility that are accorded to literary texts. In this view, quantitative and qualitative data are not only collected, coded, or constructed--they are entrusted to the care of their recipient. Such attunement yields original insight into silenced, erased, and neglected subaltern dimensions of the data. Davison demonstrates how this methodology provides fresh perspective on pressing topics such as immigration, border politics, torture, war, Trumpism, violent political speech, medical care, criminal justice, algorithmic governance, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing together a strikingly original theorization of data with a rich array of examples, \u003ci\u003eClose Encounters \u003c\/i\u003eshows why the skills and methods of literary inquiry are essential to ethically sensitive data analysis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Davison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231218478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231218474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Andrew Davison","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46465686274303,"sku":"9780231218474","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_21f892e5-8d95-4d29-a508-e9ee7c50919e.jpg?v=1736346986","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/close-encounters-andrew-davison-9780231218474","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}