Patterns

We tend to assume that the triumph of digital technology has revolutionized the world within a few years. Our interpersonal relationships, our work and even the outcome of democratic elections: Everything follows completely different rules since the Internet, the social media and the various gadgets of the big tech companies exist. In his new social theory, sociologist Armin Nassehi turns the tables and shows, beyond panic and trivialization, that digitization is only a particularly sophisticated technical answer to a question that has always arisen in modern societies