{"product_id":"dataclysm-by-christian-rudder","title":"'Dataclysm' by Christian Rudder","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"437\" data-end=\"914\"\u003eBefore every app started pretending it cared about your wellbeing, Christian Rudder was already doing something much more interesting; using vast pools of online behaviour to show what people are actually like when nobody is performing for the room.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"437\" data-end=\"914\"\u003eComing out of the OkCupid world, \u003cem data-start=\"732\" data-end=\"743\"\u003eDataclysm\u003c\/em\u003e sits in that very specific early-2010s moment when the internet still felt chaotic, revealing, vaguely sinister, yet totally honest. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"916\" data-end=\"1390\"\u003eRudder writes about desire, race, beauty, sex, self-presentation, and the gap between what people say and what they do, with a tone that is more curious than sanctimonious. Part pop social science, part internet artifact, part accidental time capsule from the data-optimist era, this is one of those books that now reads both as argument and as evidence. The world it describes hasn’t vanished; it just got better at lying about itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"916\" data-end=\"1390\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSigned hardback edition. Crown, 2014. First published 2014. No dust jacket. Near fine condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44283086667859,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-29T114948.327.png?v=1774745452","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/dataclysm-by-christian-rudder","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}