Google Me: One-click Democracy (Meaning Systems) - Softcover

Cassin, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823278077 ISBN 13: 9780823278077

Verlag: Fordham University Press, 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. While impressed by the search engine's brilliance, Cassin enlists her formidable knowledge of the rhetorical tradition to challenge on 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. As the Internet continues to intensify the neoliberal effacement of difference and corporate reduction of the common, Cassin's refreshing polemic takes technology seriously enough to scrutinize the beliefs upon which it operates.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.



Barbara Cassin is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and President of the Collège International de Philosophie. Her books in English include her widely discussed Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism (Fordham), Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home? (Fordham, winner of the French Voices Grand Prize), and, with Alain Badiou, Heidegger: His Life and His Philosophy.

Michael Syrotinski is Marshall Chair of French at the University of Glasgow.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0823278077
• ISBN 13: 9780823278077
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 148
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