{"product_id":"gadget-consciousness-collective-thought-will-and-action-in-the-age-of-social-media-digital-barricades-9780745335339","title":"Gadget Consciousness Collective Thought Will and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvestigates how electronic devices we use affect our consciousness, both as individuals and classes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Our obsession with gadgets is a key token of how deeply computer-based connection is now embedded in everyday life and consciousness. Joss Hands offers a highly thoughtful and theoretically astute reading of the possibilities for human reflexivity and agency that still remain' -- Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory, London School of Economics\u003cbr\u003e'A Swiss army knife of a book, unfolding tools to convert digital devices from exploitation and isolation to meaning and connection. Joss Hands gives us a handheld manifesto for gadget communism' -- Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths University of London\u003cbr\u003e'Takes the seemingly apolitical and trivial concept of 'the gadget' and transforms it into a fascinating path to explore not only the most recent phase of capitalist techno-fetishism, but also, with exemplary radical experimentalism, the blasphemous idea of 'gadget communism'' -- Nick Dyer-Witheford, University of Western Ontario\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Preface \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Question Concerning Gadgets \u003cbr\u003e 2. Gadget Materialism \u003cbr\u003e 3. Gadget Brain \u003cbr\u003e 4. Gadget Consciousness \u003cbr\u003e 5. Gadget Action \u003cbr\u003e 6. Gadget Futures \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404308291927,"sku":"9780745335339","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745335339.jpg?v=1730486050","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gadget-consciousness-collective-thought-will-and-action-in-the-age-of-social-media-digital-barricades-9780745335339","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}