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-{{Quote|A form of modernity, characterised by an unfaltering confidence in science and technology as means to reorder the social and natural world.
+{{d|High modernism|haɪ ˈmɒdᵊnɪzᵊm|n}}
-:—Wikipedia, on ''High Modernism''}}
+A form of modernism characterised by an unfaltering confidence in science and technology as means to reorder the social and natural world.}}
-[[System redundancy|One of the]] [[JC]]’s pet theories is that western commerce — especially the [[Financial services|parts concerned with moving green bits of paper around]] — is deep into the regrettable phase of a love affair with “[[data modernism]]”, our own term for a computer-adulterated form of [[high modernism]].
+[[System redundancy|One of the]] [[JC]]’s pet theories is that western commerce — especially the [[Financial services|part concerned with moving green bits of paper around]] — is deep into the regrettable phase of a love affair with “[[data modernism]]”, a computer-adulterated form of [[high modernism]].
 Just as the natural world can be ordered by science, so can the business world be ordered, and controlled, by ''[[process]]''. [[Process]] is a sort of [[algorithm]] that runs on a carbon and not a silicon [[substrate]]: that is, ''us''.
 ====Bring your own job satisfaction====
-[[Data modernism]] has systematically undermined the significance in the organisation of ''those with inneffable expertise''. As a result, the poor professional has been, by thousands of cuts — literally — denuded of her status. In a slow, but inevitable, descent into the quotidian, she has been expected to supply her ''own'' accoutrements: do-it-yourself typing; [[bring your own device]] — and the same time that once commodious office became communal, then lost its door, then its walls, diminished to a dedicated space along a row, and most recently has become a conditional promise of a sanitised space at a [[telescreen]] somewhere in the building, assuming you’re quick or enough people are out sick or on holiday.
+[[Data modernism]] has systematically undermined the significance in the organisation of ''those with [[ineffable]] expertise''. As a result, the poor professional has been, by thousands of cuts — literally — denuded of her status. In a slow, but inevitable, descent into the quotidian, she has been expected to supply her ''own'' accoutrements: do-it-yourself typing; [[bring your own device]] — and the same time that once commodious office became communal, then lost its door, then its walls, diminished to a dedicated space along a row, and most recently has become a conditional promise of a sanitised space at a [[telescreen]] somewhere in the building, assuming you’re quick or enough people are out sick or on holiday.
 This systematic deprecation of [[expert|expertise]] is a logical consequence of [[data modernism]]: human “magic” is not good, but risky, evanescent, fragile, expensive, inconstant and, most of all, ''hard to quantify'' — and if can’t quantify it, you can’t evaluate it, and if you can’t evaluate it you shouldn’t, in a data-optimised world, ''do'' it.