Please join us for a discussion of C. Thi Nguyen’s The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game (Penguin 2026).
Likes. Friend counts. Spotify Wrapped stats. As tech suffuses our lives, metrics like these increasingly shape what we care about. Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen argues that these metrics are not just harmless fun: they quietly distort our values and, over time, who we are.
On Thursday, March 12th, C. Thi Nguyen and Sam Anderson (staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and author of Boom Town) will discuss Nguyen's new book, The Score (Penguin, 2026), which The Guardian calls “a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life.”
This event is free and open to the public.
This event is organized by Zed Adams (The New School), Cayla Clinkenbeard (Georgia Tech), and Daniel Fogal (NYU). It is co-hosted by the Office of University Initiatives, the Institute for Philosophy and New Humanities (IPNH), The New School’s Philosophy Department, and NYU’s Center for Bioethics.
Sam Anderson is currently a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Formerly a book critic for New York Magazine and regular contributor to Slate, Anderson’s journalism and essays have won numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism. He lives in New York with his family.
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