{"product_id":"against-the-machine-how-the-web-is-reshaping-culture-and-commerce-and-why-it-matters-paperback","title":"Against the Machine: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce -- and Why It Matters - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLee Siegel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author hailed by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003efor his \"drive-by brilliance\" and dubbed by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMagazine \u003c\/i\u003eas \"one of the country's most eloquent and acid-tongued critics\" comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the most consequential cultural development of our time: the Internet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf course the Internet is not one thing or another; if anything, its boosters claim, the Web is everything at once. It's become not only our primary medium for communication and information but also the place we go to shop, to play, to debate, to find love. Lee Siegel argues that our ever-deepening immersion in\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003elife online doesn't just reshape the ordinary rhythms of our days; it also reshapes our minds and culture, in ways with which we haven't yet reckoned. The web and its cultural correlatives and by-products--such as the dominance of reality television and the rise of the \"bourgeois bohemian\"--have turned privacy into performance, play into commerce, and confused \"self-expression\" with art. And even as technology gurus ply their trade using\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ethe language of freedom and democracy, we cede more and more control of our freedom and individuality to the needs of the machine--that confluence of business and technology whose boundaries now stretch to encompass almost all human activity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSiegel's argument isn't a Luddite intervention against the Internet itself but rather a bracing appeal for us to contend with how\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eit is transforming us all. Dazzlingly erudite, full of startlingly original insights, and buoyed by sharp wit, \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Machine\u003c\/i\u003e will force you to see our culture--for better and worse--in an entirely new way.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLEE SIEGEL is the author of the essay collections \u003ci\u003eFalling Upwards, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNot Remotely Controlled\u003c\/i\u003e and winner of the 2002 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife and son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8.02 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52494203715891,"sku":"9780385522663","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/IRvMvoTSqP9780385522663.webp?v=1759974917","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/against-the-machine-how-the-web-is-reshaping-culture-and-commerce-and-why-it-matters-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}