The Twittering Machine : How Capitalism Stole Our Social Life Paperback / softback
by Richard (Author) Seymour
Paperback / softback
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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.
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:226 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:The Indigo Press
- Publication Date:15/08/2019
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- ISBN:9781999683382
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:226 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:The Indigo Press
- Publication Date:15/08/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781999683382