{"product_id":"how-we-became-our-data-colin-koopman-9780226626581","title":"How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person","description":"We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who are meticulously recorded in state surveillance dossiers and online marketing databases? What is the story behind data coming to matter so much to who we are? \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eHow We Became Our Data, \u003c\/i\u003e Colin Koopman excavates early moments of our rapidly accelerating data-tracking technologies and their consequences for how we think of and express our selfhood today. Koopman explores the emergence of mass-scale record keeping systems like birth certificates and social security numbers, as well as new data techniques for categorizing personality traits, measuring intelligence, and even racializing subjects. This all culminates in what Koopman calls the \"informational person\" and the \"informational power\" we are now subject to. The recent explosion of digital technologies that are turning us into a series of algorithmic data points is shown to have a deeper and more turbulent past than we commonly think. Blending philosophy, history, political theory, and media theory in conversation with thinkers like Michel Foucault, J rgen Habermas, and Friedrich Kittler, Koopman presents an illuminating perspective on how we have come to think of our personhood--and how we can resist its erosion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin Koopman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022662658X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226626581\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Colin Koopman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946346742015,"sku":"9780226626581","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_297b5b58-85e5-493d-831b-b45f15924449.jpg?v=1681512624","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-we-became-our-data-colin-koopman-9780226626581","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}