Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism by Geert Lovink (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Sad by Design by Geert Lovink We live in a time of engineered intimacy, toxic memes and online addiction. Can we ever break free? FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping and liking, all we are left with is the flat and empty aftermath of time lost to the app.Sad by Design offers a critical analysis of the growing social media controversies such as fake news, toxic viral memes and online addiction. The failed search for a grand design has resulted in depoliticised internet studies unable to generate either radical critique or a search for alternatives.Geert Lovink calls for us to embrace the engineered intimacy of social media, messenger apps and selfies, because boredom is the first stage of overcoming platform nihilism. Then, after the haze, we can organise to disrupt the data extraction industries at their core. Author Biography Geert Lovink is a media theorist, internet critic and author of Zero Comments (Routledge, 2007), Networks Without a Cause (Polity, 2012), Social Media Abyss (Polity, 2016) and Sad By Design (Pluto, 2019). He founded the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and teaches at the European Graduate School. Table of Contents Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Society of the Social1. Overcoming the Disillusioned Internet 2. Social Media as Ideology 3. Distraction and its Discontents 4. Sad by Design5. Media Network Platform: Three Architectures 6. From Registration to Extermination: On Technological Violence 7. Narcissus Confirmed: Technologies of the Minimal Selfie 8. Mask Design: Aesthetics of the Faceless 9. Memes as Strategy: European Origins and Debates 10. Before Building the Avant-Garde of the Commons Notes Bibliography Review Dystopian ... a scathing indictment of a technology that transforms the very notion of self into a sharing platform. -- Eva Illouz, author of Why Love Hurts: A Sociological ExplanationSad by Design: on Platform Nihilism, despite the title, is not a sad book. It dissects our digital addictions with the dynamite power of critical theory. Its a savage journey into the heart of the digital self, and a wake-up call to break free of our own enslavement -- Donatella Della Ratta, author of Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in SyriaGeert Lovink, who is expertly familiar with digital dynamics - technological as well as social - provides in this book a searing criticism of platform nihilism, considered above all as a perversion of computational design -- Bernard Stiegler, author of The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism Review Quote Sad by Design: on Platform Nihilism, despite the title, is not a sad book. It dissects our digital addictions with the dynamite power of critical theory. Its a savage journey into the heart of the digital self, and a wake-up call to break free of our own enslavement Details ISBN0745339352 Author Geert Lovink Pages 192 Publisher Pluto Press Series Digital Barricades Year 2019 ISBN-10 0745339352 ISBN-13 9780745339351 Format Hardcover Short Title Sad by Design Language English Subtitle On Platform Nihilism Publication Date 2019-05-20 UK Release Date 2019-05-20 Imprint Pluto Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2019-05-20 NZ Release Date 2019-05-20 Alternative 9780745339344 DEWEY 302.231 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161822480;

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