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Seymour, Richard

 
9781911648833: The Twittering Machine: How Capitalism Stole Our Social Life
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ISBN 10 : 1911648837 ISBN 13 : 9781911648833
Editeur : The Indigo Press, 2024

Synopsis

‘Richard Seymour has a brilliant mind and a compelling style. Everything he writes is worth reading.’ —The Guardian

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 our relationship with social media.

Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. 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 insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we’re getting out of it, and what we’re getting into.

‘One of our most astute political analysts.’—China Miéville

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À propos de l'auteur

Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization, Against Austerity and Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics.  

His writing appears in The New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, Prospect, Jacobin, and innumerable other places including his own Patreon. He is an editor at Salvage magazine. 

His book, The Twittering Machine, was first published in August 2019. 

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Éditeur
The Indigo Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1911648837
ISBN 13 
9781911648833
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
226
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