The Twittering Machine : How Capitalism Stole Our Social Life

Name: The Twittering Machine
Brand: The Indigo Press
SKU: 9781999683382
Price: 2350 KES
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ISBN: 9781999683382

by Richard Seymour

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1999683382

ISBN-13 9781999683382

Publisher The Indigo Press

Imprint The Indigo Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 15th, 2019

Print length 226 Pages

Weight 288 grams

Dimensions 13.70 x 21.50 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: Sociology Social, group or collective psychology Impact of science & technology on society Impact of science and technology on society Internet: general works

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In 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. Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our fixation with social media. His new book probes the human side of the machine, asking what we’re getting out of it, and what we’re getting into.

In surrealist artist Paul Klee''s The Twittering Machine, the birdsong 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.

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