Twittering Machine

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  • ISBN 9781911648833
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: The Indigo Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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In surrealist artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media.

Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience.

Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we’re getting out of it, and what we’re getting into.

Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization, Against Austerity and Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics.  

His writing appears in The New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, Prospect, Jacobin, and innumerable other places including his own Patreon. He is an editor at Salvage magazine. 

His book, The Twittering Machine, was first published in August 2019.