Twittering Machine (eBook)

Richard Seymour (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
240 Seiten
The Indigo Press (Verlag)
978-1-911648-03-1 (ISBN)

Infos

'If you really want to set yourself free, you should read a book – preferably this one.' Observer In surrealist artist Paul Klee's The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for relationship with social media. Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. Like drug addicts, we are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience.Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and interviews with users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of this machine, asking what we're getting out of it, and what we're getting into.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.8.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Adults In The Room • against austerity • and the weak suffer • automating inequality • books about politics • books about social media • Corbyn • dark Web • democracy hacked • ethics of internet • ethics of social media • facebook book • instagram book • james bridle • Jaron Lanier • Jon Ronson • Michael Lewis • net delusion • new dark age • Owen Jones • Philosophy of Internet • philosophy of social media • Philosophy of Writing • Richard Seymour • Social Media • so you've been publicly shamed • strange rebirth • talking to my daughter • talking to my daughter about the economy • ten arguments for deleting • The Circle • the circle dave eggers • the dark net • The Global Minotaur • the liberal defence of murder • the people vs tech • TO BE A MACHINE • truth about facebook • truth about instagram • truth about social media • truth about twitter • twitter book • twittering machine • Yanis Varoufakis
• ISBN-10: 1-911648-03-9 / 1911648039
• ISBN-13: 978-1-911648-03-1 / 9781911648031