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The Twittering Machine - How Capitalism Stole Our Social Life (Paperback)
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The Twittering Machine - How Capitalism Stole Our Social Life (Paperback)
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Price R330
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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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