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A review by jmc513
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle
5.0
There's a resonance between this book and some of Donna Haraway's work that offers a sort of agency, a plurality of possible futures beyond the multiple utopias/dystopias that plague our collective imaginaries, if only we reclaim our relationship with the present.
Neither a defeated account of our imminent demise, nor a hopeful formula for brighter days, New Dark Age engages with the depth of its denunciation, and offer a sobering invitation to stay with the trouble of living amidst the cloudiness of the cloud, to revise our relationship with the tools we've built and the world we've built into them, and to engage with the complexity of the challenge, not by blind faith in technological solutionism but by acting to understand and reshape that very technology. Think we must.
Neither a defeated account of our imminent demise, nor a hopeful formula for brighter days, New Dark Age engages with the depth of its denunciation, and offer a sobering invitation to stay with the trouble of living amidst the cloudiness of the cloud, to revise our relationship with the tools we've built and the world we've built into them, and to engage with the complexity of the challenge, not by blind faith in technological solutionism but by acting to understand and reshape that very technology. Think we must.