The Ordinal Society

by Kieran Healy and Marion Fourcade

A sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world.

We now live in an "ordinal society." Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy argue that technologies of information management, fueled by the abundance of personal data and the infrastructure of the internet, transform how we relate to ourselves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674971140
• ISBN13: 9780674971141
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.3"