From IBM’s christening of the ordinateur to today’s platforms, our essay of the week highlights how datafied feedback loops sort, score, and steer people into an "ordinal society" that fundamentally alters our social life.

By Marion Fourcade & @kjhealy.co in @aeon.co

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Data has created a new and paradoxical social order: the promise of emancipation is made possible by classifying everything buff.ly/PAqIygo