Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
You describe the digital as "an implacable engine of addiction, loneliness, false hope, cruelty, psychosis, indebtedness, squandered life, the corrosion of memory and social disintegration. All of it its touted benefits are rendered irrelevant or secondary by its injurious and sociocidal impacts"... My intention wasn't to point the finger of blame
... See moreBut even by the mid 1990s, the promotional retro-psychedelic euphoria had vanished, as it became clearer that though cyberspace was, in fact, a reinvention of the self, it was transnational corporations doing the reinventing and transforming.