The Inglorious Years (eBook)

The Collapse of the Industrial Order and the Rise of Digital Society

Daniel Cohen (Autor)

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2021
192 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22226-4 (ISBN)

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How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called for a radical shift away from the old industrial order, imagining a future of technological liberation and unfettered prosperity. Industrial society did collapse, and a digital economy has risen to take its place, yet many have been left feeling marginalized and deprived of the possibility of a better life. The Inglorious Years explores the many ways we have been let down by the rising tide of technology, showing how our new interconnectivity is not fulfilling its promise.In this revelatory book, economist Daniel Cohen describes how today's postindustrial society is transforming us all into sequences of data that can be manipulated by algorithms from anywhere on the planet. As yesterday's assembly line was replaced by working online, the leftist protests of the 1960s have given way to angry protests by the populist right. Cohen demonstrates how the digital economy creates the same mix of promises and disappointments as the old industrial order, and how it revives questions about society that are as relevant to us today as they were to the ancients.Brilliant and provocative, The Inglorious Years discusses what the new digital society holds in store for us, and reveals how can we once again regain control of our lives.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.5.2021
• Übersetzer: Jane Marie Todd
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Algorithmen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: adolescence • Albert Hirschman • Allan Bloom • americans • Andrew Mcafee • assassination • autarky • Barry Eichengreen • Barry Goldwater • billionaire • Bob Dylan • Boredom • Bourgeoisie • Bourgeois Society • Calculation • Capitalism • Christopher Lasch • Civilization • civil service • Conservative Revolution • Cornelius Castoriadis • Counterculture • Criticism • Cultural revolution • Customer • Das Kapital • debt • deindustrialization • Deleuze and Guattari • Economic Growth • economic liberalism • economist • electricity • Emerging Technologies • Employment • Eric Brynjolfsson • Erving Goffman • Facebook • far-right politics • Financial Crisis • Foucault • French Communist Party • General Motors • Generation Z • George Gilder • Hannah Arendt • Harvard Business School • hatred • Herbert Marcuse • Hippie • hostility • Ideology • Immigration • income • Individualism • Industrial society • Intellectual • Jacques Lacan • Jean Baudrillard • Jean-Marie Le Pen • Jeremy Rifkin • Karl Marx • Kibbutz • Kondratiev wave • laborer • Leonardo Sciascia • Levi-Strauss • Love-In • Marxism • May 1968 events in France • may '68 • Michel Foucault • middle class • Modernity • Murder in Amsterdam • Mythologies (book) • Nazism • Netflix • Nikolai Kondratiev • of education • Olivier Roy (professor) • One-Dimensional Man • Paul Krugman • Politics • Populism • populist explosion • post-industrial society • Princeton University Press • Proletariat • Protest • Psychoanalysis • Racism • reality principle • Recession • Religion • resentment • Romanticism • Ronald Reagan • Sartre • Scientific Management • Service economy • Sexual Revolution • Sigmund Freud • Situationist International • Social integration • Sociology • Steven Pinker • Subprime Mortgage Crisis • Tax • Technology • The Closing of the American Mind • The Conscience of a Liberal • The Populist Temptation • the second machine age • the sixties • Trade Union • Transhumanism • Unemployment • Wealth • welfare • Welfare State • Wilhelm Reich • Working Class • World War II • Xenophobia • Youth • youth protest • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22226-6 / 0691222266
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22226-4 / 9780691222264