Acknowledgments
Preface: There is Nothing Outside the Texting
Chapter 1: Hypermodulation (or the Digital Mood-Ring)
Chapter 2: The Will-to-Synchronize
Chapter 3: Slaves to the Algorithm
Chapter 4: NSFW: The Fappening, and Other Erotic Distractions
Conclusion: Chasing the Unicorn
Notes
Bibliography
DOMINIC PETTMAN is Chair of Liberal Studies, New School for Social Research, and Professor of Culture and Media, Eugene Lang College. He has held previous positions at the University of Melbourne, the University of Geneva, and the University of Amsterdam. He is the author or co-author of a large number of publications on technology and society.
"The social media of 'Web 2.0' distract us to death, yet they also
demand and absorb all our attention. They make us all
interchangeable with one another, yet they also divide us into tiny
groups that never meet or interact. In Infinite Distraction,
Dominic Pettman takes the measure of these odd paradoxes and cuts
the Gordian knot of perplexity in which they leave us."
Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University
"Infinite Distraction offers a critical analysis that is itself
attentive to the various nuances of how a new kind of selfhood is
being synchronized in screen-based networking. This provocative
text is written with flair; it functions as a necessary manual to
understand the massive grey zone somewhere between the
preprogrammed and the accidental."
Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton
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