{"product_id":"data-love-9780231177276","title":"Data Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eData Love\u003c\/i\u003e considers the changes big data has brought to the human condition from a philosophical standpoint. Roberto Simanowski explores our entanglements with algorithmic analysis and data mining, as we contribute to the amassing of ever more data about our lives, leading to the statistical evaluation and individual profiling of our selves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDigital interactive space is not only a technical condition: it mobilizes larger ecologies of meaning that cannot be captured by an exclusive focus on those technical features. Roberto Simanowski gives us a brilliant exploration of one such ecology, an ironic and critical take on contemporary society's ambivalent relationship with data. -- Saskia Sassen, author of \u003ci\u003eExpulsions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the advent of the Web, digital technologies seem to contain alternatives to the consumerist models implemented by the culture industry as described by Adorno and Hockheimer. Simanowski shows how data economy turns this dream into a nightmare of hyperconsumption founded on hypercontrol. -- Bernard Stiegler, author of \u003ci\u003eStates of Shock: Stupidity and Knowledge in the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith this book, Simanowski joins Evgeny Morozov as an indispensable critic of our obsession with big data. What sets Data Love apart from other accounts is its determined shift of attention away from the sinister machinations of government agencies to the impact of seemingly harmless commercial data-service providers, as well as its informed historical focus, which ties modern data mining to the venerable project of enlightenment. Seek and you will find, a famous text promised two millennia ago. Search engines such as Google have renewed the pledge, but Simanowski leaves no doubt that the digital platform supporting this promise is turning it into a threat: Seek and you will be found. -- Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, author of \u003ci\u003eKittler and the Media\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimanowski proffers a much more profound history and theoretical basis to the debate, a contribution unparalleled in its findings and with conclusions that are neither too radical nor too conservative. Without question, \u003ci\u003eData Love\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive and philosophically rich contribution on this subject that I have read. -- Creston Davis, Global Center for Advanced Studies\u003cbr\u003eCompelling. . . . Simanowski makes an excellent case that the most essential struggle is not with the NSA or Facebook but with ourselves. -- Jennifer Howard * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eRecommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eData Love\u003c\/i\u003e dares us to reflect on the progression of our relationship with data, to think where zealous data mining might be leading, and then to solemnly answer the question: does data love us back? -- David R. Gruber * Information, Communication \u0026amp; Society *\u003cbr\u003eA splendid and beautiful book about our society, our relationship with technologies, but most important, governments' relationship with them. . . . Highly recommended to everyone. * Articles and more *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Beyond the NSA Debate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e1. Intelligence Agency Logic\u003cbr\u003e2. Double Indifference\u003cbr\u003e3. Self-Tracking and Smart Things\u003cbr\u003e4. Ecological Data Disaster\u003cbr\u003e5. Cold Civil War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Paradigm Change\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e6. Data-Mining Business\u003cbr\u003e7. Social Engineers Without a Cause\u003cbr\u003e8. Silent Revolution\u003cbr\u003e9. Algorithms\u003cbr\u003e10. Absence of Theory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. The Joy of Numbers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e11. Compulsive Measuring\u003cbr\u003e12. The Phenomenology of the Numerable\u003cbr\u003e13. Digital Humanities\u003cbr\u003e14. Lessing's Rejoinder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Resistances\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e15. God's Eye\u003cbr\u003e16. Data Hacks\u003cbr\u003e17. On the Right Life in the Wrong One\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003ePostface\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400305189207,"sku":"9780231177276","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231177276.jpg?v=1730470343","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/data-love-9780231177276","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}