Google Me: One-Click Democracy (Meaning Systems) - Hardcover

Cassin, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823278069 ISBN 13: 9780823278060

Verlag: FORDHAM UNIV PR, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

“Google is a champion of cultural democracy, but without culture and without democracy.” In this witty and polemical critique the philosopher Barbara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big data. Enlisting her formidable knowledge of the rhetorical tradition, Cassin demolishes the Google myth of a “good” tech company and its “democracy of clicks,” laying bare the philosophical poverty and political naiveté that underwrites its founding slogans: “Organize the world’s information,” and “Don’t be evil.” For Cassin, this conjunction of globalizing knowledge and moral imperative is frighteningly similar to the way American demagogues justify their own universalizing mission before the world.

While sensitive to the possibilities of technology and to Google’s playful appeal, Cassin shows what is lost when a narrow worship of information becomes dogma, such that research comes to mean data mining and other languages become provincial “flavors” folded into an impoverished Globish, or global English.

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Barbara Cassin (Author)
Barbara Cassin is Director of Research at the CNRS in Paris and President of the Collège International de Philosophie. Her Dictionary of Untranslatables has been adapted into five languages, and her Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home? won the 2015 French Voices Grand Prize. Her most recent book to appear in English is Heidegger: His Life and His Philosophy (coauthored with Alain Badiou).

Michael Syrotinski (Translator)
Michael Syrotinski is Marshall Professor of French at the University of Glasgow.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: FORDHAM UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0823278069
• ISBN 13: 9780823278060
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172
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