TY - JOUR
TI - The culture of algorithms
AU - Szpunar, Magdalena
TI - The culture of algorithms
AB - 
	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
VL - 2018
IS - Volume 19, Issue 1
PY - 2018
SN - 1896-8201
C1 - 2084-3976
SP - 1
EP - 10
DO - 10.4467/20843976ZK.18.001.8493
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zarzadzanie-w-kulturze/article/kultura-algorytmow
KW - algorithms
KW - cultural delay hypothesis
KW - reverse motion hypothesis
KW - defining technology
KW - technological bias