Algorithmic Desire : Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media / Matthew Flisfeder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flisfeder, Matthew, 1980- author.

Series:

Diaeresis.

Diaeresis Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism and mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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?

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8101-4334-8

OCLC:

1232410336