We face in a future in which we have ever more data about the world but we know less about it. In this video James Bridle discusses the realities of computational thinking.
In New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future leading artist and writer James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems, and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime https://www.versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age
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The argument laid out here is deeply, deeply wrong; so wrong as to not even plausibly approach specious reasoning. Bridle speaks pure gibber-jabber, if the artist were to be aware of this it might be read as good art – i.e. its lack of sincerity and artificiality would raise suspicion and critical distance. There is no correlation between social division, fundamentalism or toxic politics, with computational thinking – as Bridle sincerely claims. If one wants to understand these social issues by correlation, we must turn to political economy and genealogies of Whiteness. For example: Mariana Mazzucato's The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy; Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Inner Level; Elizabeth Povinelli's Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism.
Sorry, Bridle, you are sweet but sweetness is not enough here.