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There Are No Facts

Autor Mark Shepard
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 noi 2022
"There Are No Facts examines the uncommon ground we share in a post-truth world. It unpacks how attentive algorithms and extractive data practices are shaping space, influencing behavior and colonizing everyday life. Articulating post-truth territory as an architectural and infrastructural condition, it shows how these spatial architectures of attention and datamining are in turn situated within broader histories of empiricism, objectivity, science, colonialism and perception. These entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power are considered across scales ranging from the trans-locality of the home to the planetary extent of the COVID-19 pandemic, with stops along the way at the corner bodega, a neighborhood for the proverbial 1%, a waterfront district in Toronto, and a national election. Through an introduction, nine chapters and a coda, the book addresses the erosion of a common ground on which truth claims were once negotiated and the epistemic fragmentation that results. It probes how these socio-technical systems bracket what we know about the world, how they construe our agency to act within it, and how they shape these spaces that, in turn, shape us"--
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780262047470
ISBN-10: 0262047470
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 56 color illustrations
Dimensiuni: 160 x 230 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC

Notă biografică

Mark Shepard is Associate Professor of Architecture and Media Study at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where he directs the Media Arts and Architecture Program (MAAP) and the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies (CAST). He is the editor of Sentient City (MIT Press). His work has been exhibited at museums, galleries, and festivals internationally.

Cuprins

Introduction 1
I Practices
1 Alternative Facts 29
2 Ground Fictions 47
3 The Data Blasé 67
II Contexts
4 Artificial Cohabitants 85
5 Spurious Correlations 103
6 From Tools to Environments 121
7 Right to the (Wrong) City 137
8 The Ruse and the Exploit 159
9 Pandemic Exceptionalism 175
Coda 199
Acknowledgments 213
Notes 217
Bibliography 247
Index 267