Hugo

This is one of those books that does not miss a beat in its full revealing of history, context and philosophical expertise in analysing the political. Succinctly written, it can be addictive and frustrating to read it as it sinks and sinks into the depths of what we all live yet either not acknowledge or ignore. Whether Technofeudalism really is something new, or a mutation of late stage capitalism due to ICTs is to be seen. But that privacy has a value is daily strongly eroded and replaced with algorithms based on political and social ideologies is the most obvious point of this book. Its tremendous impacts in the industry are visible but I would also like to understand what has been left behind with the introduction of the digital?

Incredibly holistic but never missing the point.

This view on policing (mostly in America) shows us how policing has been turned into the default for any societal problem, and how criminalisation of activities is the preferred way politicians use to solve problems rather then implementing real solutions.

This has lead the solution to now become the problem, and therefore the police is the main problem in a myriad of ways.

Highly recommend it.

I am not the biggest enjoyer of self help book. (Even tho this year I already read two of them).

With this one it was slightly different, I still felt plenty of the self helpy aspect of accountability, encountering yourself, building yourself and envisioning. Yet there was one aspect about it that garned itself two stars, the understanding. There is plenty of understanding that coming out of trauma, self destructive behaviours or whatever is not easy, it will never be easy and the path going forward or the end goal is uncertain, foggy and nearly impossible to imagine.


Yet the solutions offered were once more based on a reading of psychology and psychological tools that I doubt their methodology.

This book ended up falling much flatter than I first imagined. It does set itself as more of a history of Marxismis, the time of Marx, how economy has increasingly changed (altough some of the points are not as useful since the sub prime crisis), the Wester Marxism turn and the Frankfurt School turn dueing the 20th century and the possible future roads of marxism. None of this is ever explained in detail on why exactly these turns happened, and what philosophical or political ideas have changed. It is always argued that “due to factor X things changed”.

Quite a bad start for my May Theory reading.

As much as one could have a book filled with a number of definitions, and pseudo intellectual moments, or even adverts, calls to action and feel like it's plastered with MTV ads the most calling and gripping thing is the stories told by the characters of Generation X