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General Will 2.0: Rousseau, Freud, Google
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- Hiroki Azuma
- Vertical
- Paperback
- 9781935654742
- 9.64 X 4 X 0.65 inches
- 0.48 pounds
- Philosophy > Criticism
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Whatever countervailing hopes the worldwide web gave rise to in its dawning years, far from restoring the public sphere of yore, the internet has completed its fragmentation. According to Japanese thinker Hiroki Azuma, the way forward must be sought through what network technology is actually good at: aggregating and processing the traces we leave (without always meaning to) every time we wade into the world of connectivity.
Harking back to Rousseau and his idea of the general will, dropping by Freud and his discovery of the unconscious, taking inspiration from Google and the tenor of its innovations, revisiting Christopher Alexander and his highway planning, and making curious bedfellows of Twitter, Rorty, and Nozick, General Will 2.0 is a wild ride bound to delight not just citizens who care but those who find doing so to be increasingly difficult and false.
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