@article{1aeba505-3295-45da-b138-87818a27ff22, author = {Magdalena Szpunar }, title = {The culture of algorithms}, journal = {Culture Management}, volume = {2018}, number = {Volume 19, Issue 1}, year = {2018}, issn = {1896-8201}, pages = {1-10},keywords = {algorithms; cultural delay hypothesis; reverse motion hypothesis; defining technology; technological bias}, 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 Foucault said—a “countable person” fitting perfectly}, doi = {10.4467/20843976ZK.18.001.8493}, url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zarzadzanie-w-kulturze/article/kultura-algorytmow} }