Synopsis
Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of high-tech solitude. Arguing that the internet's widespread anonymity eliminates boundaries and encourages otherwise polite people to be downright abusive, Siegel discusses the half-fantasy, half-realism of online personae. By experiencing virtual selves rather than other individuals, we run the risk of being reduced to avatars that other internet users manipulate for their own ends. Insightful and written with convincing evidence to support the author?s polemic, this book is a welcome addition to the debate on the personal ramifications of living in a wired world.
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À propos de l?auteur
The author of Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television, Lee Siegel is a cultual
commentator and art critic. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Paperback. Lee Siegel, Profile Books Ltd. Of course the Internet is not one thing or another; if anything, its boosters claim, the Web is everything at once. It's become not only our primary medium for communication and information but also the place we go to shop, to play, to debate, to find love. Lee Siegel argues that our ever-deepening immersion in life online doesn't just reshape the ordinary rhythms of our days; it also reshapes our minds and culture, in ways with which we haven't yet reckoned. The web and its cultural correlatives and by-products such as the dominance of reality television and the rise of the 'bourgeois bohemian' have turned privacy into performance, play into commerce, and confused 'self-expression' with art. And even as technology gurus ply their trade using the language of freedom and democracy, we cede more and more control of our freedom and individuality to the needs of the machine that confluence of business and technology whose boundaries now stretch to encompass almost all human activity.Siegel's argument isn't a Luddite intervention against the Internet itself but rather a bracing appeal for us to contend with how it is transforming us all. Dazzlingly erudite, full of startlingly original insights, and buoyed by sharp wit, Against the Machine will force you to see our culture for better and worse in an entirely new way. Paperback. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781846686979-SECONDHAND
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Paperback large trade, very good condition, pages faintly toned, minimal edgewear. 182 pp. Lee Siegel provides a ruthless but witty challenge to conventional wisdom about the Internet. He argues that our ever-deepening immersion in life online does more than reshape the ordinary rhythms of our days. It also reshapes our minds and culture, in ways that we haven't yet reckoned. The web and its cultural correlatives and byproducts - such as the dominance of reality television and the rise of the bourgeois bohemian - have turned privacy into performance, play into commerce, and confused self-expression with art. And even as technology gurus ply their trade using the language of freedom and democracy, we cede more and more control of our freedom and individuality to the needs of the machine. This book extends 'The Medium is the Message', by Marshall McLuhan, to Web 2.0. The author is an American cultural and art critic. (Later subtitle: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce -- And Why It Matters.). N° de réf. du vendeur 14117
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