Book 8: Rationalism

Aura: Normalization. Region: China. Sign: yin.

The story

In China, behind the facade of a summit on ethics in artificial intelligence, the powers that have run through the seven previous books converge.

The philosophy

Reducing any variable — person, market, language, even destiny — to a calculable rule; calculation, measurement and control.

The tensions

normalization versus potentiation — In tension with: Romanticism.