Sucker Nation

Vincent F. Hendricks is Professor of Formal Philosophy at The University of Copenhagen. He was the founder and director of the Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) funded by the Carlsberg  Foundation. A prolific writer he has been awarded several prizes for his research among them The Elite Research Prize by the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, The Roskilde Festival Elite  Research Prize, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award and The Rosenkjær Prize. He was Editor-in-Chief of Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of  Science between 2005-2015.Hendricks has over the years appeared in a wide variety of media outlets including The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, BBC, Le Monde, DIE ZEIT, Welt, TEDx, The Open Mind: Channel  Thirteen, Wired, The Conversation, VICE, Quartz, New Statesman, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Danish Broadcasting Company, News POLSAT Poland, The Tom Hartman Show, The Pete Dominick Show, The  David Packman Show, The Forbidden Speech podcast, SiriusXM, Ideasphere – National Public Radio, Sputnik-News Radio UK, SRF Tagesschau, Neue Zuricher Zeitung, CNBC AFRICA, New Business Ethipoia, CPH:DOX, TRT World Turkey, ARD Radio Germany, TV2 News Denmark.

• Prologue.- 1 Hustlers, Suckers and the Price of Being Seen.- 2 The Hustler’s Game for Suckers.- 3 No Common Knowledge in Sucker Nation.- 4 Hustlers, Suckers and Bubbles.- 5 Hustlers, Suckers and Attention.- 6 Hustler/Sucker Platforms.- 7 Wits, Vanity and Authenticity.- 8 A Tragedy of Modern Agency.- 9 Escaping the Trap.- Acknowledgements.- References.