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Title: Google Me Condition: New Description: “Google is a champion of cultural democracy, but without culture and without democracy.” In this witty and polemical critique the philosopher Barbara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big data. Enlisting her formidable knowledge of the rhetorical tradition, Cassin demolishes the Google myth of a “good” tech company and its “democracy of clicks,” laying bare the philosophical poverty and political naiveté that underwrites its founding slogans: “Organize the world’s information,” and “Don’t be evil.” For Cassin, this conjunction of globalizing knowledge and moral imperative is frighteningly similar to the way American demagogues justify their own universalizing mission before the world. While sensitive to the possibilities of technology and to Google’s playful appeal, Cassin shows what is lost when a narrow worship of information becomes dogma, such that research comes to mean data mining and other languages become provincial “flavors” folded into an impoverished Globish, or global English. Author: Barbara Cassin Contributor: Michael Syrotinski (Translated by) Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0823278077 EAN: 9780823278077 ISBN: 9780823278077 Genre: Literary Criticism Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 216mm Item Length: 140mm Subtitle: One-Click Democracy Translator: Michael Syrotinski Publisher: Fordham University Press Topic: Law & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy & Spirituality Release Date: 03/10/2017 Book Series: Meaning Systems Release Year: 2017
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