The New Dark Age

Overview

In The New Dark Age, artist and writer James Bridle offers us a warning against the future in which the contemporary promise of a new technologically assisted Enlightenment may just deliver its opposite: an age of complex uncertainty, predictive algorithms, surveillance, and the hollowing out of empathy. Surveying the history of art, technology and information systems he reveals the dark clouds that gather over discussions of the digital sublime.

NeMe is mentioned in the acknowledgements as the last chapters were written during Bridle's residency at NeMe.