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Conspiracy theories are a symptom of our new dark age. The last 100 years of computation shows us that big data is always insufficient. We’ve completely undermined any trust in traditional sources of authority but we’ve also spent the last 50 years undercutting our understanding of the world by making technology and the systems around us ever more opaque.
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.
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future is out now in paperback
versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age
"Like an Orwell of the computer age." - Kirkus
James Bridle is a literary editor, technologist, writer, journalist, and visual artist. He writes for Guardian, Observer, Wired, Frieze, Atlantic, and many other publications.
Conspiracy theories are a symptom of our new dark age. The last 100 years of computation shows us that big data is always insufficient. We’ve completely undermined any trust in traditional sources of authority but we’ve also spent the last 50 years undercutting our understanding of the world by making technology and the systems around us ever more opaque.
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.
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future is out now in paperback
versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age
"Like an Orwell of the computer age." - Kirkus
James Bridle is a literary editor, technologist, writer, journalist, and visual artist. He writes for Guardian, Observer, Wired, Frieze, Atlantic, and many other publications.
