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100			_aShepard, Mark
245			_aThere are no facts : attentive algorithms, extractive data practices, and the quantification of everyday life
260			_bMit Press, _aCambridge : _c2022
300			_a283 p. ; _bill. (some col.) , _c24 cm
365			_b27.95 _c$ _d86.50
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThere Are No Facts examines the uncommon ground we share in a post-truth world. It unpacks how attentive algorithms and extractive data practices are shaping space, influencing behavior and colonizing everyday life. Articulating post-truth territory as an architectural and infrastructural condition, it shows how these spatial architectures of attention and datamining are in turn situated within broader histories of empiricism, objectivity, science, colonialism and perception. These entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power are considered across scales ranging from the trans-locality of the home to the planetary extent of the COVID-19 pandemic, with stops along the way at the corner bodega, a neighborhood for the proverbial 1%, a waterfront district in Toronto, and a national election. Through an introduction, nine chapters and a coda, the book addresses the erosion of a common ground on which truth claims were once negotiated and the epistemic fragmentation that results. It probes how these socio-technical systems bracket what we know about the world, how they construe our agency to act within it, and how they shape these spaces that, in turn, shape us.
650			_aToronto waterfront district
650			_aSocial networks
650			_aMachine learning systems
650			_aPost-truth practices
650			_aUrban minimarket
650			_aCOVID-19 pandemic
650			_aMedia Studies
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