The Circle of the Snake

The Circle of the Snake
Author: Grafton Tanner
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2020-12-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 178904023X

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Shocked by 9/11, the Great Recession, digital anxiety, and ecological collapse, the West suffers from nostalgia. People everywhere yearn for a utopian version of the past that never existed. Desperate for relief, many long to escape from the present. Some will stop at nothing to achieve it. In his essential new book, Grafton Tanner, author of Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts, argues that our nostalgia today is partly a consequence of the attention economy. At a time when historical literacy is crucial, and old prejudices are percolating into the present, Big Tech’s predictive algorithms are locking us into nostalgic feedback loops. The result is a precarious society with its gaze fixed on the good old days. Spanning from the ancient Sophists to Black Mirror, The Circle of the Snake is at once a reckoning with the myth of digital utopia and an incisive analysis of nostalgia as a weapon to spread fascism.


The Circle of the Snake
Language: en
Pages: 174
Authors: Grafton Tanner
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-11 - Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

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Shocked by 9/11, the Great Recession, digital anxiety, and ecological collapse, the West suffers from nostalgia. People everywhere yearn for a utopian version o
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Pages: 244
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-12-26 - Publisher: Macmillan

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After learning that the new goblin king, her promised groom, plans to marry an elf instead, the human Miranda flees the goblin kingdom and is rescued from despa
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The Church of the Serpent: The Philosophy of the Snake and Attaining Transcendent Knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: David Sinclair
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Magus Books

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Welcome to the Church of the Serpent. The universe is the Tree of Knowledge. At the top of the tree is the Golden Bough with which we attain Golden Knowledge, t