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You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem

You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract

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Hardback (16 Sep 2025)

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Publisher's Synopsis

In the age of AI, where personal data fuels corporate profits and state surveillance, what are the implications for democracy?

This incisive book explores the unspoken agreement we have with tech companies. In exchange for reducing the anxiety of an increasingly complex online world, we submit to algorithmic classification and predictability. This reduces incentives for us to become "algorithmic problems" with dire consequences for liberal democracy. He calls for a movement to demand that algorithms promote play, creativity and potentiality rather than conformity.

This is a must-read for anyone navigating the intersection of technology, politics and identity in an increasingly data-driven world.

Book information

ISBN: 9781529244717
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
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Edition: First Edition edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 176
Weight: -1g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm