There Are No Facts: Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life

by Mark Shepard and Mark Shepard

The entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power: how data and algorithms shape the world--and shape us within that world.

With the emergence of a post-truth world, we have witnessed the dissolution of the common ground on which truth claims were negotiated, individual agency enacted, and public spheres shaped. What happens when, as Nietzsche claimed, there are no facts, but only interpretations? In this book,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262047470
• ISBN13: 9780262047470
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"