Verlag:
Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois
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...
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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? "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
