The book is a directory of people who have discussed the issues of data, society and social media better than Seymour has and much of his analysis are tired, milquetoast takes read in the voice of a very annoying first year philosophy student. The Wall Street firms that supplied capital to Silicon Valley envisaged the internet as “a stock market of status”, powered by “unequal relationships” that would inevitably explode into violence: “racism and riots, class struggles and countercultures, mobsters and McCarthyism”. His humane style passes beneath conventional judgments (of trolls, of addiction, even of ISIS), consistently pointing to a more sensitive understanding of the underlying conditions.A cogent investigation of the various ways we interact with social media and the ways it interacts with us. Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster and the author of numerous books about politics, including The Liberal Defence of Murder (Verso, 2008), Against Austerity (2014), Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (Verso, 2016) and The Twittering Machine (The Indigo Press, 2019). Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour, author of Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics, argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media. Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster and the author of numerous books about politics, including The Liberal Defence of Murder (Verso, 2008), Against Austerity (2014), Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (Verso, 2016) and The Twittering Machine (The Indigo Press, 2019). That might suggest a certain disconnect between the relentlessly social nature of the "Twittering Machine" and the standpoint of the author himself. “We prefer the machine when human relationships have become disappointing.”
Multivarious points of view are focused and honed into a single, hive opinion, one whose ever narrowing boundaries of acceptable discourse are policed by other members of the swarm. The social media industry is happy to function as Trump’s enabler because his projectile-vomited bile maximises profits: in 2017 his account “was worth about $2.5bn to Twitter, a fifth of its share value at the time”.Seymour’s book is dedicated to the Luddites, saboteurs who wrecked machinery during the industrial revolution, but he at once admits that we can hardly smash a machine that is a global abstraction, existing only in the wifi-tingling air. While Seymour does not claim to provide answers or strategies, he is attempting he says to try and work out "a new language for what is coming into being" thanks to our increasing thrall to the Twittering Machine.This was an OK book, but I really thought it should have been better. Rank doom. This seems the best way to approach Richard Seymour's The Twittering Machine. Dear ZLibrary User, now we have a dedicated domain What problems does it appear to solve? 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. Some interesting stuff here about, say, how the thing you’re addicted to is not the explanation for the addiction, and about how you slide into a certain kind of relationship with a technology. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Need help? Not to my ‘concretist’ tastes, I guess.Extremely disappointing. I am not sure if this even qualifies as a book or would it be better described as a bibliography, so often does Seymour start a sentence with "in the words of ....".
It is designed to be addictiveA brilliant essay on what we are really doing when we scroll through social media feeds. THE INDIGO PRESS 50 Albemarle Street London W1S 4BD www.theindigopress.com The Indigo Press Publishing Limited Reg. The central thesis of the book is that we are all writing more than we ever have in history in the form of tweets, Facebook updates, texts, emails etc. The Twittering Machine is an unflinching view into the calamities of digital life: the circus of online trolling, flourishing alt-right subcultures, pervasive corporate surveillance, ... Richard Seymour shows how the digital world is changing the ways we speak, write, and think. Please read our short guide Engagement or "time on device" leads to depression (that most indiRichard Seymour claims to have written this book in a state of "monastic isolation." However, it is as another Goodreads contributor stated: "a melancholy book" or as Seymour more starky describes his own work: "a horror story". Social media and the data behemoth is described as the 'twittering machine' that we feed our lives into, with its constant need to consume our time and attention as its fuel. We are writing more than ever in this digital era, yet the question is posed - "what are we writing ourselves into?" Become a patron of Richard Seymour today: ... My latest book, The Twittering Machine (Indigo Press, 2019) is a rave-reviewed attack on the social industry: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and the political and cultural effects of the capitalist capture of social life. The file will be sent to your Kindle account. There were some really interesting portions surrounding our use of the internet, online celebrity, trolling and lies and there were some other sections that didn't seem to add much.
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