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Marion Fourcade, UC Berkeley

Date
Thu February 27th 2025, 12:30 - 1:45pm
Location
McClatchy Hall - Building 120, Studio 40
Marion Fourcade

Title: Political Economy of the Ordinal Society 

 

Abstract: We live in an ordinal society. Fueled by digital technologies, the infrastructure of the internet, and ever-expanding computing power, scores and metrics increasingly form the invisible scaffolding upon which social life depends. In this talk, I will explore how this atomization of human experience into streams of analyzable data has transformed the process of capital accumulation, facilitated a deeper integration of financial logics into everyday life, and sustained the rise of insidious forms of social competition, moral judgment, and inequality. 

This talk is based on the recently published book with Kieran Healy, The Ordinal Society.