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The ordinal society.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fourcade, Marion.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information society.
- Information technology--Economic aspects.
- Information technology.
- Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Social capital (Sociology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Organizations now measure and rank nearly every aspect of our lives, using data to make predictions about our purchasing power, tastes, and character. The Ordinal Society shows how these predictions structure life chances, producing a hollow morality that launders familiar forms of social advantage into an illusion of merit.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Valley Fever
- Homestead Dreams
- Crabgrass Frontier
- Soft City
- 1. The Box of Delights
- The Gift of Everything
- The Social Substrate
- The Exfiltration of Sociality
- 2. The Data Imperative
- Thou Shalt Count
- Thou Shalt Gather
- Thou Shalt Learn
- 3. Classification Situations
- Naming and Ordering
- Testing and Matching
- Eigenvalues and Eigencapital
- 4. The Great Unbundling
- Informative Payments
- Market Modulations
- Streams of Income
- 5. Layered Financialization
- Layering Abstractions
- Popularizing Protocols
- Banking on Speculation
- 6. The Road to Selfdom
- Authenticated Exposure
- The Searching Disposition
- The Self-Organization Man
- 7. Ordinal Citizenship
- The Problem of Equality
- The Problem of Merit
- The Problem of Value
- Conclusion: The Unbearable Rightness of Being Ranked
- Ordinalization's Double Movement
- The Will to Progress and the Will to Power
- The Twofold Truth of Social Science
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-29667-2
- 0-674-29668-0
- OCLC:
- 1425792835
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