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Kieran Healy, Marion Fourcade: The Ordinal Society (Hardcover, Harvard University Press) 3 stars

We now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, …

somehow a re-tread for very current concerns

3 stars

Clearly describes a wide swath of current techno-capitalist surveillance and ad targeting, bias-hiding algorithmic ratings, mass and crass individualizing. I expected this to have either more historical context or sociological observation, but alas, only an academic repackaging of my feeds.