1
of
1
New Dark Age
Technology and the End of the Future
Ratings/reviews counts are updated frequently.
Check link for latest rating. ( 2,726 ratings, 363 reviews)
Book Hero Magic crafted this summary to help describe this book. While it's new and still
learning, it may not be perfect - your
feedback is welcome!
Summary
Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
$2499
Unit price
/
Unavailable
AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER
Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 3-4 weeks
Found a better price? Request a price match
New Dark Age
$2499
Unit price
/
Unavailable
Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?
New Dark Age
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
Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and
still learning, it may not be perfect - your
feedback is welcome!
Description
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.
Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?
James Bridle's New Dark Age is highly regarded for its insightful exploration of how modern technology and information systems often obscure reality rather than clarify it. Reviewers commend it as a thought-provoking and unsettling analysis of our digital age, highlighting issues such as increased surveillance, data convergence, and the illusion of illumination by technology. The book is praised for its compelling narrative and its blend of technical insight with cultural critique, offering both a cautionary tale and a call to awareness in the face of digital complexity and environmental challenges.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781804290422
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 March 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Edition: New edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 252g
Pages: 320
About the Author
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]
Also by James Bridle
View all
More from Politics & Current Affairs
View all-
10% off -
-
12% offNew Release -
14% offNew Release -
10% off -
13% off -
New ReleaseOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn Stock -
11% off -
-
15% off
-
19% off -
12% off
Why buy from us?
Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!
Service & Delivery
Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 80,000 books and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.
Auckland Bookstore
We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.
Our Gifting Service
Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.
