Marion Fourcade

A sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world. We now live in an "ordinal society." Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardised units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy argue that technologies of information management, fuelled by the abundance of personal data and the infrastructure of the internet,...

For people and governments around the world, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to place the preservation of human life at odds with the pursuit of economic and social life. Yet this simple alternative belies the complexity of the entanglements the crisis has created and revealed, not just between health and wealth but also around morality, knowledge, governance, culture,...