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New Dark Age</div>
<div class="edition-single--book-subtitle">Technology and the End of
the Future</div>
<div class="edition-single--book-contributors"><span>by <a
href="https://www.versobooks.com/authors/2256-james-bridle">James
Bridle</a></span></div>
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<p>How the Information Age destroys knowledge</p>
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<p>As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our
understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single
idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through
computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better
world.<br>
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In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly
divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy
theories, and post-factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power use
our lack of understanding to further their own interests. Despite
the apparent accessibility of information, we’re living in a new
Dark Age.<br>
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From rogue financial systems to shopping algorithms, from
artificial intelligence to state secrecy, we no longer understand
how our world is governed or presented to us. The media is filled
with unverifiable speculation, much of it generated by anonymous
software, while companies dominate their employees through
surveillance and the threat of automation.<br>
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In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle
surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems,
and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the
digital sublime.</p>
<p>In these videos James Bridle explains some of the arguments from <em>New
Dark Age</em>. Watch all the videos <a
href="https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3939-what-does-our-digital-future-look-like">here</a>.</p>
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