Una brillante investigación sobre los efectos políticos y psicológicos de nuestra cambiante relación con los medios sociales. Los antiguos ejecutivos de la industria social nos dicen que el sistema es una máquina de adicción. Somos usuarios que esperamos histéricos nuestro próximo éxito, con sus likes, sus comentarios y su difusión compartida. Escribimos a la máquina como individuos, pero esta nos responde agregando nuestros deseos, fantasías y debilidades, y convirtiéndolo todo en datos....
For the first time in decades, socialism is back on the agenda—and for the first time in Labour’s history, it defines the leadership In the 2017 general election, Jeremy Corbyn pulled off an historic upset, attracting the biggest increase in the Labour vote since 1945. It was another reversal of expectations for the mainstream media and his ‘soft-left’ detractors. Demolishing the Blairite opposition in 2015, Corbyn had already seen off an attempted coup. Now, he had shattered the government’s...
Blistering and timely interrogation of the politics and motives of an infamous ex-leftist. Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative “Marxist,” an advocate of America’s invasion of Iraq filled with passionate intensity. Throughout his life, he played the role of universal gadfly, whose commitment to the truth transcended the party line as well...
