{"product_id":"9781911648833-twittering-machine-the","title":"The Twittering Machine","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow Capitalism Stole Our Social Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn surrealist artist Paul Klee’s \u003cem\u003eThe Twittering Machine\u003c\/em\u003e, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormer social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we’re getting out of it, and what we’re getting into.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41829629100129,"sku":"9781911648833","price":8.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_30254741.jpg?v=1727338232","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781911648833-twittering-machine-the","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}