{"product_id":"homo-numericus-the-coming-civilization-hardback-9781509560219","title":"Homo Numericus; The coming 'civilization' (Hardback) 9781509560219","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHomo Numericus\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe coming 'civilization'\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDaniel Cohen (Author), Steven Rendall (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509560219, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 February 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e172 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 13.7 x 2.8 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The digital revolution will change our world. It will change the way we act and the way we interact. It will change the scope of governments and firms to affect our choices. All this for the better and for the worse. Nobody is better placed than Daniel Cohen to take us on an exploration of how the digital world may look. A fascinating intellectual journey.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlivier Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘In what turned out to be his final work, Daniel Cohen brought his encyclopaedic knowledge to bear on the contradictions of post-industrial society, now reinforced by artificial intelligence: an apparent liberation of the individual alongside intensified surveillance; an ostensible enablement of a \u003ci\u003evox populi\u003c\/i\u003e that has also generated soaring material inequality and the loneliness of global communication. He appeals to us to treasure those institutions that remind us of our continuing need for each other.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eColin Crouch, University of Warwick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no facet of human life that the digital revolution has not streamlined and dematerialized. Its objective was to reduce costs by forgoing face-to-face interactions, and it was a direct result of the free-market shock of the 1980s, which sought to expand the marketplace seamlessly in every possible dimension. Today, we can be algorithmically entertained, educated, cared for, and courted in a way that was impossible in the old industrial society, where institutions structured the social world. Today, these institutions have been replaced by monetized virtual contact. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs the industrial revolution did in the past, the digital revolution is creating a new economy and a new sensibility, bringing about a radical revaluation of society and its representations. While obsessed with the search for an efficient management of human relations, the new digital capitalism gives rise to an irrational and impulsive \u003ci\u003eHomo numericus\u003c\/i\u003e prone to an array of addictive behaviours and subjected to intensive forms of surveillance. Far from producing a new agora, social media produce a radicalization of public debate in which hate-filled speech directed against adversaries becomes the norm. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut these outcomes are not inevitable. The digital revolution also offers an exciting path, one that leads to a world in which everyone deserves to be listened to and respected. It explores a new way of living that is historically unprecedented, that of a society based neither on individualism nor on the hierarchical model of earlier civilizations. Are we able to seize the new opportunities opened up by the digital revolution without succumbing to its dark side?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part One\u003cbr\u003e The Digital Illusion\u003cbr\u003e I.   The Body and the Mind\u003cbr\u003e Terminator\u003cbr\u003e Reason and Emotions  \u003cbr\u003e Descartes’ “Error”\u003cbr\u003e Artificial Intelligence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II.  Stultify and Punish\u003cbr\u003e A Wild Thought\u003cbr\u003e The Capitalism of Surveillance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III.  Waiting for the Robots\u003cbr\u003e The Death of Kings\u003cbr\u003e The Industrialism of Services\u003cbr\u003e The Thinking Robot\u003cbr\u003e The Stake of the Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e IV.  Political Anomie\u003cbr\u003e Impoverishing Growth\u003cbr\u003e Working Class Suicide\u003cbr\u003e A Political Revolution\u003cbr\u003e Vox popoli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Two\u003cbr\u003e The Return of the Real\u003cbr\u003e V.  The Social Imagination\u003cbr\u003e The Law of 150 Friends\u003cbr\u003e Bonobos and Chimpanzees\u003cbr\u003e Four Possible Societies\u003cbr\u003e The Secular Age\u003cbr\u003e The Triumph of Endogamy\u003cbr\u003e The Post-Modern Mentality\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e VI.  Winter is Coming\u003cbr\u003e The Crises of the Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e The Climatic Clock\u003cbr\u003e The Society of Addiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VII.  In a Hundred Years\u003cbr\u003e The Society of Abundance\u003cbr\u003e Back to Science Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VIII.  By Way of Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economics%20%5BKC%5D%22\"\u003eKC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52475093090584,"sku":"9781509560219","price":14.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509560219.jpg?v=1785804750","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/homo-numericus-the-coming-civilization-hardback-9781509560219","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}