• The Ordinal Society 📚
• by Marion Fourcade, Kieran Healy
• Publication date: 2024
• Read: Apr 12, 2025

I was really curious about this book as I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my use of technology, the amount of data that is tracked on devices, and just the general state of software (and hardware) where a lot things seem to be getting developed more for the purpose of keeping people hooked and participating in a closed platform rather than mostly offering a useful service or a solution to an actual problem. The book overall is definitely a challenging read at times as it’s often written in fairly academic language (the disclaimer here being that English isn’t my first language and I don’t have a degree in the humanities, so ymmv) which made me re-read some sentences occasionally to get to the gist of it. But overall it was a really interesting book that gave me a lot of new ideas and avenues to think about my relationship with technology.