Gadget Consciousness by Joss Hands
Investigates how electronic devices we use affect our consciousness, both as individuals and classes.
'Our obsession with gadgets is a key token of how deeply computer-based connection is now embedded in everyday life and consciousnessJoss Hands offers a highly thoughtful and theoretically astute reading of the possibilities for human reflexivity and agency that still remain' -- Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory, London School of Economics
'A Swiss army knife of a book, unfolding tools to convert digital devices from exploitation and isolation to meaning and connection. Joss Hands gives us a handheld manifesto for gadget communism' -- Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths University of London
'Takes the seemingly apolitical and trivial concept of 'the gadget' and transforms it into a fascinating path to explore not only the most recent phase of capitalist techno-fetishism, but also, with exemplary radical experimentalism, the blasphemous idea of 'gadget communism'' -- Nick Dyer-Witheford, University of Western Ontario
'A Swiss army knife of a book, unfolding tools to convert digital devices from exploitation and isolation to meaning and connection. Joss Hands gives us a handheld manifesto for gadget communism' -- Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths University of London
'Takes the seemingly apolitical and trivial concept of 'the gadget' and transforms it into a fascinating path to explore not only the most recent phase of capitalist techno-fetishism, but also, with exemplary radical experimentalism, the blasphemous idea of 'gadget communism'' -- Nick Dyer-Witheford, University of Western Ontario
Joss Hands is Reader in Critical Theory at Newcastle University. He is the author of Gadget Consciousness: Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media and @ is For Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in Digital Culture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780745335346 |
| ISBN 10 | 0745335349 |
| Title | Gadget Consciousness |
| Author | Joss Hands |
| Series | Digital Barricades |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pluto Press |
| Year published | 2019-02-20 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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