==ENGLISH== My pseudo is a pun on a French expression, "À vau-l'eau", meaning "kind of adrift", and the name of the Swiss Canton (State) where I live, Vaud, which is pronunced the same as "vau". The whole thing means "Adrift autist from Vaud". Until about 10 years ago, I was a pretty rabid reader, although I would often read the same book again and again and again (up to 100 times). But then, I went through a sever burn-out and reading, which had always been a way for me to restore my emotional and cognitive capaicities suddenly became a heavy weight, that kept reminding me of the time when things were much better and that I could never return to that. I was still reading from times to times, but only academic books of the type I had been reading during my studies. But I couldn't open a fictional novel anymore. SInce, I haven't been able to find any activity that could really replace reading for restoring my mind, I have progressively decided to get back to reading novels I used to read, but which are not too related to specific period of my life, especially not my childhood. Now, I alternate between so-called "academic" reading and novels, especially the fantasy type (like Mists of Avalon).
Although I'm fairly fluent in English, I do tend to publish a lot in French.
==FRANÇAIS== Comme indiqué dans mon nom de profil, je suis autiste et un peu perdue! J'étais une grosse lectrice jusqu'à ce qu'il y a quelques années, je perde le goût de lire des livres, pour me focaliser uniquement sur des articles. Cette période a correspondu aussi à mon burn-out. Progressivement, je reprends goût à la lecture, même si c'est plutôt des ouvrages de type "académique", c'est-à-dire, de la philosophie, de la sociologie, de l'anthropologie, de l'histoire et des sciences-po. Ceux-ci me sont en grande partie inspirés par les débats que je suis en ligne, notamment chez de nombreux vidéastes, aussi passionnants que talentueux, qui abordent des thématiques qui m'ont toujours intéressée et le font en profondeur, avec beaucoup de références à lire. Mais, je commence aussi à apprécier de nouveau certains romans que je lisais à la fin de mes études.
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Cet ouvrage n'est pas vraiment une introduction à l'épistémologie, mais avant tout un abrégé de références pour les gens qui connaissent déjà bien le sujet. Il n'y a aucune explication et pratiquement aucune définition.
Par ailleurs, le style ampoulé et lourd rend la lecture encore plus difficile. Voilà pourquoi je ne peux lui accorder que deux étoiles.
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If you wish to understand better what is at stakes with the algorithms and the global digital maze we seem to be prisoner of, then, this is a must read. Cathy O'Neil very clearly unravel the intricate technical, philosophical, political and socioeconomic logic at play. She shows how they work together to force an even more violent neoliberalism in every area of our daily lives, whether social, cultural, professional, judiciary, educational or political and economic. It is both quite scary and at the same time empowering, as it gives us the basics to look for collective ways to progressively get out of the maze we've lost ourselves in. As the say goes, knowledge is power, and I believe it has never been more true than today.
I would recommend to read it along Shoshana Zuboff's (bookwyrm.social/author/39159/s/shoshana-zuboff) "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (bookwyrm.social/book/260163/s/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism). They nicely complement each …
If you wish to understand better what is at stakes with the algorithms and the global digital maze we seem to be prisoner of, then, this is a must read. Cathy O'Neil very clearly unravel the intricate technical, philosophical, political and socioeconomic logic at play. She shows how they work together to force an even more violent neoliberalism in every area of our daily lives, whether social, cultural, professional, judiciary, educational or political and economic. It is both quite scary and at the same time empowering, as it gives us the basics to look for collective ways to progressively get out of the maze we've lost ourselves in. As the say goes, knowledge is power, and I believe it has never been more true than today.
I would recommend to read it along Shoshana Zuboff's (bookwyrm.social/author/39159/s/shoshana-zuboff) "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (bookwyrm.social/book/260163/s/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism). They nicely complement each others.