Jill Lepore

A person can’t help but feel inspired by the riveting intelligence and joyful curiosity of Jill Lepore. Knowing that there is a mind like hers in the world is a hope-inducing thing

Lepore is a brilliant historian with an eye for unusual and revealing stories

Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America’s best historians; it’s fair to say she’s one of its best writers too

Lepore is a sophisticated and original thinker and an ensnaring, witty, and provocative storyteller

As both a Jeremiah and a troubadour, Jill Lepore has one of the most distinctive voices in American literary life

'The Artificial State is the factory farming of humans, the sorting and segmenting, the isolation and alienation, the destruction of both human community and the capacity for self-government', writes the prizewinning historian Jill Lepore in her astounding, Orwellian account of how technology has undermined democracy around the world. Tracing the rise and fall of what she calls the 'Artificial State' over more than a century, Lepore examines how political campaigns have been reduced to the digital manipulation of attention-mining algorithms, how multinational corporations control public discourse, and how the era of the liberal nation-state is coming to an end, replaced by the rule of artificially intelligent machines<i>.</i> In a luminous, anguished rumination on everything from robot rights and Elon Musk’s origins to what data centres cost wildlife, Lepore offers a vantage and a history wholly missing from the debate about the decay of democracy, the destruction of the natural world, and the future of humanity.

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

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Jill Lepore writes history like a poet

A person can’t help but feel inspired by the riveting intelligence and joyful curiosity of Jill Lepore. Knowing that there is a mind like hers in the world is a hope-inducing thing

Lepore is a brilliant historian with an eye for unusual and revealing stories

Jill Lepore writes history like a poet

A person can’t help but feel inspired by the riveting intelligence and joyful curiosity of Jill Lepore. Knowing that there is a mind like hers in the world is a hope-inducing thing

Lepore is a brilliant historian with an eye for unusual and revealing stories

Jill Lepore writes history like a poet

A person can’t help but feel inspired by the riveting intelligence and joyful curiosity of Jill Lepore. Knowing that there is a mind like hers in the world is a hope-inducing thing

Lepore is a brilliant historian with an eye for unusual and revealing stories

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