How Capitalism Stole Our Social Life
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Köp båda 2 för 456 krHis excellent chapter entitled We are all liars is thoughtful and convincing about the spreading of fake news. https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/web-of-deceit-disinformation-could-prove-the-most-powerful-weapon-of-all/ -- Daniel Hahn * The Spectator * Book of the Week The book is a thrilling demonstration of what such resistance can look like, by one of the most clear-sighted and unyielding critics writing today. We should all read it. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/08/the-twittering-machine-richard-seymour-review-social-media-dystopia -- Will Davies * The Guardian * Book of the Week Time spent online is time deducted from our lives, just as taking a selfie is an excuse to not be yourself . . . if you really want to set yourself free, you should read a book preferably this one. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/11/the-twittering-machine-richard-seymour-review-social-media-industry -- Peter Conrad * The Observer * Why cant we just quit Twitter? mention of The Twittering Machine https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2019/08/why-can-t-we-just-quit-twitter -- Sarah Manavis * New Statesman * Taking in every sort of online nastiness, from trolling to alt-right subcultures to fake news, Seymours compulsively argued book may just be the intervention we all need. https://www.tatler.com/gallery/the-best-late-summer-reads -- Francesca Carington * Taler * The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media, extract from The Twittering Machine https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/23/social-media-addiction-gambling -- Richard Seymour * The Guardian Long Read * an unflinching look at our toxic relationship with grim yet compelling social media https://www.ft.com/content/d18e41d2-c3ff-11e9-a8e9-296ca66511c9?fbclid=IwAR1HFCxo-07RFlL69E3ZrT0RKjixhvD147GBMlH_jw8oaxmqqrAk-HW0hL0 -- Emma Jacobs * Financial Times * 'Books in the Media' Critics have acclaimed Richard Seymours The Twittering Machine (Indigo), a polemic against the rising tide of social media, as thrilling, unflinching and excoriating https://booksinthemedia.thebookseller.com/articles/reviewers-click-like-on-the-twittering-machine * The Bookseller * his superb new book . . . treads between acute biting psychological analysis and an account of how that form of psychology has been set in place materially, historically. http://socialistresistance.org/left-hooked-on-twitter/18134?fbclid=IwAR0SNzqjqjGUdp0DWLpFilnt8r6ekVBLytZSg2-N4DS-Zy1sdzTqpAresJc -- Ian Parker * Socialist Resistance * The Twittering Machine is a book that not only gets to the heart of social medias deficits but is a joy to read. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/04/the-politics-of-trolling/ -- Louis Proyect * Counter Punch * We ae living through something unprecedented. An open-ended social experiment funded by venture capitalism, supported bv the US military and security state. An industrialised system of writing. Were writing more than ever before in human history. This is the basis for the worlds most profitable industry: the social industry. https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5516/willing-servants -- Richard Seymour * New Humanist * a digest of the burgeoning literature addressing the dangers of being online http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2019/11/the-great-escape/ -- Jon Baglow * The Literary Review of Canada * yields an abundance of quotable insights https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/dont-us/ -- David Streitfeld * The Times Literary Supplement * However clever, snarky or fierce our replies may be, we all know were helping to spread the very messages we want to discredit https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/28/right-trolling-posts-political-opponents -- Richard Seymour * The Guardian * Social media platforms did not
Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including Against Austerity and Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics. His writing appears in the 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.