ISBN:
9780810143333
,
9780810143340
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 228 Seiten
,
Diagramme
Series Statement:
Diaeresis
DDC:
302.23/1 2 23
Keywords:
Social media Philosophy
;
Online social networks Philosophy
;
Capitalism and mass media
;
Structuralism
;
Social Media
;
Neoliberalismus
;
Kapitalismus
Abstract:
Introduction Metaphor as Totality, or, Social Media as Our Metaphor -- Periodizing Social Media, or, "Social Media" Does Not Exist! -- Enjoying Social Media -- Subjection before Enslavement -- Input/Output -- Appearances That Matter, and the Reified Subjects of Social Media -- The Swiping Logic of the Signifier -- Conclusion The End of Social Media, or, Accelerate the Metaphor?
Abstract:
"Algorithmic Desire shows that social media is a metaphor that reveals the dominant form of contemporary ideology: neoliberal capitalism. The author interprets the social media metaphor through dialectical, Marxist, and Lacanian frameworks"--
Note:
Includes index
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