September 6, 2024
Center for Research on Social Change faculty affilate Marion Fourcade is co-author of The Ordinal Society (Harvard University Press, 2024). In a sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world, this book disucess how algorithmic predictions from the personal data users give, generate new forms of capital and social expectation where familiar structures of social advantage are recycled into measures of merit that produce insidious kinds of social inequality.