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What if the most dangerous idea of the 21st century is not artificial intelligence, but the enterprise that tells you, ""you are an algorithm""? Anti-Harari begins by dismantling one of the most dazzling narratives of the tech age: the ""inevitability"" of Dataism. This narrative, circulated under the guise of popular science, is in fact a new theology of power. Just as medieval feudal power was legitimised through divine order, so too is today's algorithmic order legitimised through scholastic dogmas. The reason is the same: to make power permanent. That is why discourse must be as sharp as a sword - and why ""new stories"" are always needed. This book targets three fundamental dogmas: the reduction of the human to an algorithm, the denial of the will, and the absolutisation of data. It also lays bare the political economy behind them. The author does not leave the discussion in abstract philosophy. He descends to the body - the primary source of the paradigm he calls Somatic Materialism. He maps a somatic terrain stretching from the nervous system to the gut, from microorganisms to connective tissue. This map reveals: the human being is not a closed computational system; we are an open, vibrating, unpredictable ecosystem. For this reason, the issue is not merely intellectual. It is a matter of a new property regime being imposed under the name of ""inevitability."" It is a matter of sovereignty and production relations taking on a new form through algorithmic instruments. It is a matter of the body becoming a new colonial territory. Anti-Harari is not against technology. But it is against technology being presented as a destiny independent of power relations. Because behind what is presented as destiny, there is always a design. A spectre is haunting the algorithm. The spectre is the body.

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