Thrones of the Invisible - My Journey Through the History of Divine Power to Find a Vision for a Better Tomorrow #1013116

A test score. A ranking. A market. A verdict passed on a seven-year-old. They arrive wearing the face of measurement — neutral, settled, simply how things are — and that face is exactly what makes them obeyed. Thrones of the Invisible traces the history of that disguise, which the book calls divine power: how every age found a new way to make its own choices look like nature, from the first altars to the algorithm, until power stopped wearing crowns and so stopped being argued with. Thirty-three chapters, one question turned on each — what is it serving? — ending not on a verdict but on a vow.
The book traces that power from the crowns and heavens of the old world to the genes, algorithms and curves of the new, and asks the one question it never wants asked: who decided — and could it be otherwise?