{"product_id":"sad-by-design-9780745339344","title":"Sad by Design","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe live in a time of engineered intimacy, toxic memes and online addiction. Can we ever break free?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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 Explanation'\u003cbr\u003e'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. It's 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 Syria'\u003cbr\u003e'Geert 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'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Preface \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Society of the Social\u003cbr\u003e 1. Overcoming the Disillusioned Internet \u003cbr\u003e 2. Social Media as Ideology \u003cbr\u003e 3. Distraction and its Discontents \u003cbr\u003e 4. Sad by Design\u003cbr\u003e 5. Media Network Platform: Three Architectures \u003cbr\u003e 6. From Registration to Extermination: On Technological Violence \u003cbr\u003e 7. Narcissus Confirmed: Technologies of the Minimal Selfie \u003cbr\u003e 8. Mask Design: Aesthetics of the Faceless \u003cbr\u003e 9. Memes as Strategy: European Origins and Debates \u003cbr\u003e 10. Before Building the Avant-Garde of the Commons \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48736478855511,"sku":"9780745339344","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745339344.jpg?v=1723810668","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sad-by-design-9780745339344","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}