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NEW DARK AGE - JAMES BRIDLE KARTONIERT (TB)

We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified 
unverifiable speculation  much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result
we no longer understand what is happening around us. Underlying all of these trends is a single
idea: the belief that quantitative data can provide a coherent model of the world  and the
efficacy of computable information to provide us with ways of acting within it. Yet the sheer
volume of information available to us today reveals less than we hope. Rather  it heralds a new
Dark Age: a world of ever-increasing incomprehension. In his brilliant new work  leading artist
and writer James Bridle offers us a warning against the future in which the contemporary
promise of a new technologically assisted Enlightenment may just deliver its opposite: an age
of complex uncertainty  predictive algorithms  surveillance  and the hollowing out of empathy.
Surveying the history of art  technology and information systems he reveals the dark clouds
that gather over discussions of the digital sublime.

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