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The Architecture of Our New Digital Cage

The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour

March 3, 2026 by matt_thac Leave a Comment

  There’s a whole literary field of broken dreams on our addiction to smart phones. The Art of Surveillance Capitalism talks about how our data is harvested, Irresistible looks at how tech companies keep us hooked, while The Shallows shows how our concentration span is reduced. The Twittering Machine sits among these, but offers a different slant. What if we are being enslaved by our devices, what if they’re robbing us of our surplus value?   It’s a very Marxist critique of the rise of […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: capitalism, cbr18, digital media, Marxism, Richard Seymour

matt_thac's CBR18 Review No:27 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: capitalism, cbr18, digital media, Marxism, Richard Seymour ·
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A Hundred Years On, It Still Mostly Holds Up

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin

January 2, 2020 by ASKReviews Leave a Comment

Best for: People interested in a sense of what the Marxist philosophers were saying in the 1900s. Admittedly a niche market at this point (for now, anyway). In a nutshell: The title basically nails it – Lenin argues that Imperialism is Capitalism at its end. Worth quoting: “..for both uneven development and a semi-starvation level of existence of the masses are fundamental and inevitable conditions and constitute premises of this mode of production.” Why I chose it: It was assigned as part of the Marxist […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: capitalism, Marxism, politics, Vladimir Lenin

ASKReviews's CBR12 Review No:3 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: capitalism, Marxism, politics, Vladimir Lenin ·
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