Gadget Consciousness
Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media
“Our obsession with gadgets is a key token of how deeply computer-based connection is now embedded in everyday life and consciousness. Hands offers a highly thoughtful and theoretically astute reading of the possibilities for human reflexivity and agency that still remain.”—Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science
Paper $27.00
Sad by Design
On Platform Nihilism
Sad by Design offers a critical analysis of our social media environment and what it’s doing to us. Lovink calls for us to acknowledge the engineered intimacy of these sites—because boredom, he argues, is the first stage of overcoming “platform nihilism,” which can free us to organize to stop the data harvesting industries that run them.
Paper $24.00
Inhuman Power
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism
Inhuman Power explores the relationship between Marxist theory and AI through three approaches, each using the lens of a different Marxist theoretical concept. This volume argues that on its current trajectory, AI is likely to render humanity obsolete and that the only way to prevent it is a communist revolution.
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