<i>NEW DARK AGE</i> is a masterful study of all the things approaching out of the future's night. Compelling and essential.

- Warren Ellis, author of <i>NORMAL</i> and <i>TRANSMETROPOLITAN</i>,

Computation brings humanity more darkness than enlightenment: a goblin horde of digital superstitions, invented and unleashed in just half a century. Yet James Bridle is fearless in our gloomy post-truth predicament; he's a theorist, artist, technical visionary and even a moralist. Has he foreseen the worst?

- Bruce Sterling, author of <i>Pirate Utopia</i>,

Highlights the ways in which we are deliberately being kept in the dark and are sleepwalking into a future of non-stop surveillance and 'the dark clouds [gathering] over our dreams of the digital sublime.

Financial Times [Summer Reads 2018]

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An extraordinary, perceptive analysis of the various ways in which the rise of information technology has obscured, rather than illuminated, the operations of power in the world, and diminished our capacity to improve it. It's brilliant and bracing

- Mark O'Connell, Guardian

<i>New Dark Age</i> is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I've read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I've read about contemporary life.

- Mark O'Connell, New Yorker

[<i>New Dark Age</i>] is an essential read on the key subjects around AI, and the dangerous feedback loops that are currently being produced.

- Ben Vickers, Dazed

<i>New Dark Age</i> is enlightening but frightening, a dystopian warning about the implications of the convergence of data and robotics, code and quantum computing, science and technology.

- David Gorin, Financial Mail

Brilliant and beautiful.

The Australian

<i>New Dark Age</i> is a paradoxical work, elegiac yet futuristic, which embraces paradox and the limits of knowledge - especially the limits of knowledge that the present moment's technological advances, political instability, and environmental chaos have conferred upon us.

- Tobias Carroll, Literary Hub

An engaging, sharp, and urgent work that takes us well beyond the neo-Luddite fantasies of techno-apocalypse so prevalent in late critiques of technology.

- Mari Bastashevski, Burlington Contemporary

From the highly acclaimed author of WAYS OF BEING. We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer understand what is happening around us. Underlying all of these trends is a single idea: the belief that quantitative data can provide a coherent model of the world, and the efficacy of computable information to provide us with ways of acting within it. Yet the sheer volume of information available to us today reveals less than we hope. Rather, it heralds a new Dark Age: a world of ever-increasing incomprehension.In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle offers us a warning against the future in which the contemporary promise of a new technologically assisted Enlightenment may just deliver its opposite: an age of complex uncertainty, predictive algorithms, surveillance, and the hollowing out of empathy. Surveying the history of art, technology and information systems he reveals the dark clouds that gather over discussions of the digital sublime.
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How computation makes it more difficult to understand the world: Fully updated and revised
How computation makes it more difficult to understand the world: Fully updated and revised
NEW EDITION: Fully Revised and Updated,For readers of Evgeny Morozov, Jared Lanier and Cath O'Neill.,A brilliant polemic on how information technology makes us understand the world less.,Author is leading artist and technology writer who has exhibited around the world including MoMA, New York, and Serpentine Gallery, London.,Named by WIRED magazine as one of 100 most influential people in Europe.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781804290422
Publisert
2023-03-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
252 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

James Bridle is a literary editor, technologist, writer, journalist, and visual artist. He writes for Guardian, Observer, Wired, Frieze, Atlantic, and many other publications. He presented 'New Ways of Seeing' for the BBC and is the author of 'Ways of Being' [Allen Lane, 2022]