Barbara Cassin

Google Me

One-Click Democracy

Buch

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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Syrotinski, Michael (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8232-7807-7
EAN: 9780823278077
Produktnummer: 22903215
Verlag: Fordham University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Masse: H15.2 cm x B22.8 cm x D2.2 cm 268 g
Gewicht: 268
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

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.