TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rendueles,César
TI  - Sociophobia: political change in the digital utopia 
T2  - Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture
SN  - 9780231544375
AV  - HM851 .R45713 2017
U1  - 303.48/33 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Internet
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - Technologie de l'information
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Movements
KW  - Critical Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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