Name: Google me: One-Click Democracy (Meaning Systems)
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Author: Barbara Cassin
ISBN: 9780823278077

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Google me: One-Click Democracy (Meaning Systems)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Barbara Cassin

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780823278077

Edition No.

Synopsis "Google me: One-Click Democracy (Meaning Systems) "

“Google is a champion of cultural democracy, but without culture and without democracy.” In this witty and polemical critique the philosopher Barbara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big data. Enlisting her formidable knowledge of the rhetorical tradition, Cassin demolishes the Google myth of a “good” tech company and its “democracy of clicks,” laying bare the philosophical poverty and political naiveté that underwrites its founding slogans: “Organize the world’s information,” and “Don’t be evil.” For Cassin, this conjunction of globalizing knowledge and moral imperative is frighteningly similar to the way American demagogues justify their own universalizing mission before the world.While sensitive to the possibilities of technology and to Google’s playful appeal, Cassin shows what is lost when a narrow worship of information becomes dogma, such that research comes to mean data mining and other languages become provincial “flavors” folded into an impoverished Globish, or global English.

Barbara Cassin

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Barbara Cassin (Paris, France, 1947).
She is a philosopher and philologist with doctorates from the universities of Lille and the Sorbonne, and currently serves as a research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. She has primarily focused on the works of the sophists, Parmenides, and Aristotle, highlighting the relationship between rhetoric and ontology in ancient textuality and, likewise, in the perspective of contemporary recoveries of the relationship between the practice of philosophy and language.
Among her works, it is worth mentioning: Le plaisir de parler (1986), La décision du sens (with Michel Narcy, 1989), Aristote et le logos (1997), Voir Héléne en toute femme: d’Homére a Lacan (2000). She has also directed the edition of Positions de la sophistique (1986), Nuestros griegos y sus modernos. Estrategias contemporáneas de apropiación de la Antigüedad (1992) and the monumental Vocabulaire européen des philosophies: dictionnaire des intraduisibles (2004).
Fondo de Cultura Económica has published El efecto sofístico (2008), Googléame. La segunda misión de los Estados Unidos (2008) and Más de una lengua (2014).

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