New Flesh, The

New Flesh, The

Communication has taken on an accelerated viral character, and life is rendered ever more profitable as a simulation of itself.

New Flesh, The

Communication has taken on an accelerated viral character, and life is rendered ever more profitable as a simulation of itself.

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Nov 26, 2024
978-1-80341-612-0

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Adam C. Jones
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Media studies, Political, Political economy

Synopsis

From social media to so-called ‘AI’, from cyberpunk society to automated apartheid, The New Flesh asks and answers the same questions: What does it mean to live in an increasingly online world and what is it doing to us? The thesis is this: Data production has permeated everyday life, on platforms that addict the bored and enslave the dispossessed. Communication has taken on an accelerated viral character, life is rendered ever more as a profitable simulation of itself, and new fascisms arise to disseminate themselves through cyberspace and develop their imperial weaponry. The platform is a factory for producing content, and security technologies are increasingly being trained by human beings displaced and enclosed within digitalized plantations. When we can understand the interconnections between the internet and the empire, we can fight back. By fusing Marx and Engels with William Burroughs, Mark Fisher, and contemporary Queer Theory, Adam C. Jones takes cybernetic philosophy beyond hype and hyperbole, presenting a materialist politics of the psychological and economic relations that permeate cyberspace today.

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