are there any books on the topic of pic related that arent pop-sci?

>>9349624
pasquale or debord or crary's 24/7

Philosophy has been writing about this for half a century and science is just now getting around to it

"Question Concerning Technology" by Heidegger
Society of the Spectacle by Debord
Simulacra and Simulation by Baudrillard
everything by Paul Virilio
Anti-Oedipus by Deleuze & Guattari
The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul

pretty much any critical theorist or post-structuralist deals with the implications of technology in some way or another

>>9350249
>>9350342

these mofos wrote about instagram and tumbr? udont say. really made me think.

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He wrote a new book recently actually

https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Tech-Revolution-Theodore-John-Kaczynski/dp/1944228004/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=R9BP40CA6VGFH7F1WG6S

My personal thoughts on social media and tech and that we have become more narcissistic, everything is an act, you rarely see people upload pictures of the bad times, everything is great all the time, except when they do upload a picture of the bad times, but just to get sympathy and clicks, every action is for social clicks, no actual sincerity or humanity.
I actually have a deep self hatred of myself, for bot imagined and realistic reasons.
I used to jerk off to really humiliating fetish porn, i had lots of pics and online friends, it was like some sort of non stop fear feed.
I actually deleted this tumblr yesterday, i have more than a hundred followers.
On my real tumbler i have known.
I guess it was unhealthy, i mean i still hate myself, but im pretty self aware.
Anyways, this made me think, think of all the trannies out there who have a non stop feed about how they are getting killed and oppressed, or a right winger who has a non stop feed about how muslims are invading and the west is ending.
Everyone is hooked up this computer, this fear machine and it never ends.
I wonder if thats why people are so tribalistc these days.
I find im much happier when i ignore the news, dont watch tv, dont participate in social media.
Sometimes i just want to open a portal to a different world and leave this place or i want aliens to come down and kill us all.

>>9349624
Well when the tools of opression have become fashionable, and exciting to submit under, then we are truly at the climax of society. There cannot be a point in the future wherein the people will ever try to change their government since its easier to sit back and relax. Who knew that capitalism would form the perfect society; and our leaders will only exist to give us basic benefits to survive; and the entire world will be ruled by an oligarchy of business owners who control our most vital technology. Its not a bright future, but it is one we can hopelessly attempt to prevent. If our only chance is faith, then by faith alone we must succeee.

>>9350444
Its the same principles. relationships are mediated by the spectacle, instagram has become a spectacle, social media as hyper reality, and the impetus of capitalism to have us switch identities and marketing towards relatability.

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>>9350771
literally all of this is predicted by cyber punk novels.
The only people fucking with the elite are hackers

I mean we live in a proto cyber punk nightmare.
In the far future the middle class will be destroyed, there will ony be the extremely poor or extremely rich.
There will be mega cities, and we will live there in slums.
Corporations will have more power than governments.
Hackers living on the edge of society will be their only challengers.
Holograms, robots, drones, fascistic looking police forces using battle armor, the elite living in walled off communities.
Transhumanism.
But you still have your iphone :D

>>9349624
Have you read it? I have it and thinking about to. Moreover I collected some books on some concept related ones (all of them unread):
- The Attention Merchants - Tim Wu
-The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World (MIT Press) Adam Gazzale
-The Infinite Distraction (media studies, read this one, okay-ish)


>>9350342
Elull ++
Baudrillard ++