Sociophobia : political change in the digital utopia /
Rendueles, César,
Sociophobia : political change in the digital utopia / Cesar Rendueles ; translated by Heather Cleary. - 1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages) - Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture . - Insurrections. .
Translated from the Spanish.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Culture Industry 2.0, or the End of Digital Utopias in the Era of Participation Culture -- Ground Zero: Sociophobia -- 1. Digital Utopia -- 2. After Capitalism -- Coda 1989 -- Notes -- Index.
The great ideological cliché of our time, César Rendueles argues in Sociophobia, is the idea that communication technologies can support positive social dynamics and improve economic and political conditions. We would like to believe that the Internet has given us the tools to overcome modernity's practical dilemmas and bring us into closer relation, but recent events show how technology has in fact driven us farther apart. Named one of the ten best books of the year by Babelia El País, Sociophobia looks at the root causes of neoliberal utopia's modern collapse. It begins by questioning the cyber-fetishist dogma that lulls us into thinking our passive relationship with technology plays a positive role in resolving longstanding differences. Rendueles claims that the World Wide Web has produced a diminished rather than augmented social reality. In other words, it has lowered our expectations with respect to political interventions and personal relations. In an effort to correct this trend, Rendueles embarks on an ambitious reassessment of our antagonistic political traditions to prove that post-capitalism is not only a feasible, intimate, and friendly system to strive for but also essential for moving past consumerism and political malaise.
In English.
9780231544375 (electronic bk.) 0231544375 (electronic bk.) 0231175264 9780231175265 0231175272 9780231175272 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
10.7312/rend17526 doi
22573/ctt1tkwn07 JSTOR F51765F7-1F12-4D70-A36F-3D3B93BE56DC OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2017000836
Internet--Political aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Mass media--Political aspects.
Internet--Aspect politique.
Technologie de l'information--Aspect social.
PHILOSOPHY--Movements--Critical Theory.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Internet--Political aspects.
Mass media--Political aspects.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HM851 / .R45713 2017
303.48/33
Sociophobia : political change in the digital utopia / Cesar Rendueles ; translated by Heather Cleary. - 1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages) - Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture . - Insurrections. .
Translated from the Spanish.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Culture Industry 2.0, or the End of Digital Utopias in the Era of Participation Culture -- Ground Zero: Sociophobia -- 1. Digital Utopia -- 2. After Capitalism -- Coda 1989 -- Notes -- Index.
The great ideological cliché of our time, César Rendueles argues in Sociophobia, is the idea that communication technologies can support positive social dynamics and improve economic and political conditions. We would like to believe that the Internet has given us the tools to overcome modernity's practical dilemmas and bring us into closer relation, but recent events show how technology has in fact driven us farther apart. Named one of the ten best books of the year by Babelia El País, Sociophobia looks at the root causes of neoliberal utopia's modern collapse. It begins by questioning the cyber-fetishist dogma that lulls us into thinking our passive relationship with technology plays a positive role in resolving longstanding differences. Rendueles claims that the World Wide Web has produced a diminished rather than augmented social reality. In other words, it has lowered our expectations with respect to political interventions and personal relations. In an effort to correct this trend, Rendueles embarks on an ambitious reassessment of our antagonistic political traditions to prove that post-capitalism is not only a feasible, intimate, and friendly system to strive for but also essential for moving past consumerism and political malaise.
In English.
9780231544375 (electronic bk.) 0231544375 (electronic bk.) 0231175264 9780231175265 0231175272 9780231175272 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
10.7312/rend17526 doi
22573/ctt1tkwn07 JSTOR F51765F7-1F12-4D70-A36F-3D3B93BE56DC OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2017000836
Internet--Political aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Mass media--Political aspects.
Internet--Aspect politique.
Technologie de l'information--Aspect social.
PHILOSOPHY--Movements--Critical Theory.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Internet--Political aspects.
Mass media--Political aspects.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HM851 / .R45713 2017
303.48/33