[Commlist] New Book: Gadget Consciousness

Published today - a new book in the Pluto Press Digital Barricades 
series - _Gadget Consciousness: Collective Thought, Will and Action in 
the Age of Social_ Media by Joss Hands

_Description: _

What impact does our relentless fixation on gadgets have on the struggle 
for new kinds of solidarity, political articulation and intelligence? In 
this groundbreaking study, Joss Hands explores the new political and 
social forces that are emerging in the age of social media.

Gadget Consciousness examines the transformation of our consciousness as 
a historical political force in two senses: as individual consciousness 
- in terms of sentience and will - and also as class consciousness. 
Exploring a range of manifestations in the digital commons, he 
investigates what forms digital solidarity can take, and asks whether we 
can learn from the communisms of the past and how might solidarity be 
manifested in the future?

Today, the ubiquity of networked gadgets offers exciting new 
opportunities for social and political change, but also significant 
dangers of alienation and stupefaction.

_Endorsements_:

Our obsession with gadgets is a key token of how deeply computer-based 
connection is now embedded in everyday life and consciousness. Joss 
Hands offers a highly thoughtful and theoretically astute reading of the 
possibilities for human reflexivity and agency that still remain' - 
 Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science

'A Swiss army knife of a book, unfolding tools to convert digital 
devices from exploitation and isolation to meaning and connection. Joss 
Hands gives us a handheld manifesto for gadget communism' - Sean Cubitt, 
Goldsmiths University of London

'Takes the seemingly apolitical and trivial concept of 'the gadget' and 
transforms it into a fascinating path to explore not only the most 
recent phase of capitalist techno-fetishism, but also, with exemplary 
radical experimentalism, the blasphemous idea of 'gadget communism'' - 
Nick Dyer-Witheford, University of Western Ontario

Purchase from Pluto Press using code ‘Gadget’ for a 20% discount:
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745335346/gadget-consciousness/


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