There Are No Facts
Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life
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- Hardcover
280 pages
- Release Date
10 January 2023
Summary
The entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power—how data and algorithms shape the world—and shape us within that world.
With the emergence of a post-truth world, we have witnessed the dissolution of the common ground on which truth claims were negotiated, individual agency enacted, and public spheres shaped. What happens when, as Nietzsche claimed, there are no facts, but only interpretations?
In this book, Mark Shepard examines the entanglements of p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262047470 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262047470 |
| Author: | Mark Shepard |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 10 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“Titled after Nietzsche’s famous statement and richly illustrated, this is a manual for intellectual self-defense.”
—Neural
About The Author
Mark Shepard
Mark Shepard is Associate Professor of Architecture and Media Study at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where he directs the Media Arts and Architecture Program (MAAP) and the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies (CAST). He is the editor of Sentient City (MIT Press). His work has been exhibited at museums, galleries, and festivals internationally.
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