Code Without Conscience: Systematic Psychopathy in Politics, Business & Technology

What happens when the traits we once diagnosed in dangerous individuals, manipulation, emotional detachment, grandiosity, a bottomless appetite for control, stop being personal and become structural?

In Code Without Conscience, Joanna Accordi argues that psychopathy has escaped the clinic and become the operating system of modern civilization. Drawing on psychology, history, law, economics, and international relations, she traces how a single pathological logic now governs the institutions t...