Kultura algorytmów
The Culture of Algorithms

Summary/Abstract: The culture of algorithms in which we live is a culture based on reduction, simplification, and model-building. We are overwhelmed by the data fetish, with the imperative of computability and the quantifiability of the world. We do not wonder why, because the only thing that has a value is the thing that is or can be measurable. The reduction to the digit format becomes necessary in order to generate profits. This compulsion to calculate appropriates everything, even the spheres where countability becomes not so much possible as irrational. In this way, a human being, who cannot be counted in many dimensions, becomes – as Michel Foucault said – a “countable person” fitting perfectly into the galloping mathematics of the world.

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