There Are No Facts, Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life
- Author
- Mark Shepard
- Publisher / Label
- Mit Press
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Publication year
- 2022
- Type of publication
- Book
- Number of pages
- 284
- ISBN
- 978-0262047470
Index
TABLE OF CONTENTS 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