"Eisenstein's lucid analysis is formed around the factual datum of
the global cybereconomy, which even a cursory glance reveals as
appallingly inequitable: 'Eighty-four percent of computer users are
found in north america and northern europe.'"
--"Signs"
The New York Times devotes the cover of its magazine to
America's declining interest in politics and its obsession with
money, finance, and the markets. Bill Gates builds a $50 million
mansion while food pantries and homeless shelters overflow with the
desperate. The explosive expansion of media and cyber conglomerates
creates dreamworlds while the ecology of our actual world is
jeopardized. Public space and public democracy withers, as is
evidenced by the fact that the closest facsimile of a town square
is the local Barnes and Noble.
New geographies of power are defined by sex scandals, plant
closings, cyberporn, sweatshop labor, information webs, and stock
market schizophrenia. Global capitalism and its cyberrelations use
this chaos to construct modern forms of sexual and racial
exploitation.
Into this world steps Zillah Eisenstein, with a book of profound
despair and yet also great hope, informed by her trademark sharp
analysis and her unrelenting passion for a more humane world.
Exposing the purported democratic effect of new media for the
global mirage it is, Eisenstein shows how transnational capital and
its patriarchal obsessions threaten us all, while at the same time
creating possibilities for a new democratic society.
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