Algorithms fabricate uniformity by compositing varied content into data categories

Evidence

Algorithms are automated procedures for making patterns and exchanges, compositing differing units into higher-order categories. They thus fabricate consistency where there was variability and can effectuate a certain homogeneity: it’s all data. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 208

Categorization

• DEFINE: A compact, usable definition of algorithms as pattern-making/homogenizing procedures that powers the chapter’s whole premise.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s immediacy thesis: algorithmic homogenization is the infrastructural cause of the sameness she names as immediacy’s signature. Also echoes Jameson’s late-capitalist ‘all that is solid.’