New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

Art Jameel

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

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As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation and that more data is enough to help us build a better world.

In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories and post-factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power use our lack of understanding to further their own interests. Despite the apparent accessibility of information, we’re living in a new Dark Age.

From rogue financial systems to shopping algorithms, from artificial intelligence to state secrecy, we no longer understand how our world is governed or presented to us. The media is filled with unverifiable speculation, much of it generated by anonymous software, while companies dominate their employees through surveillance and the threat of automation.

Softcover

304 pages

ISBN: 9781786635488

Publisher: Verso Books

Published May 2019"

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Frieze is the world’s leading platform for modern and contemporary art, dedicated to artists, galleries, collectors and art lovers alike. Frieze comprises three publications, frieze magazine, Frieze Masters Magazine and Frieze Week; four international art fairs, Frieze London, Frieze LA, Frieze New York, Frieze Seoul and Frieze Masters; No.9 Cork Street, a permanent gallery space in the heart of London; regular talks and summits, led by frieze editors; and frieze.com - the definitive resource for contemporary art and culture. Frieze is part of the IMG network.

James Bridle is a literary editor, technologist, writer, journalist, and visual artist. He writes for Guardian, Observer, Wired, Frieze, Atlantic and many other publications.

Canvas is a bi-monthly magazine distributed across the world and offering the very best in art and culture from the Middle East and beyond. With intelligent in-depth articles on everything from the visual arts to museums, galleries, photography and design, each issue carries an exclusive feature.

Launched as a paperback New Left Books imprint at the end of the seventies, Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing 100 books a year. Since 2000, Verso has made landmark interventions in international politics, the Middle East and South America, whilst also establishing a growing list of fiction, biography and memoir titles.

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