Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including Against Austerity and Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics. His writing appears in the The New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, Prospect, Jacobin, and innumerable other places including his own Patreon. He is an editor at Salvage magazine.
‘His excellent chapter entitled ‘We are all liars’ is thoughtful
and convincing about the spreading of fake news.’
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/web-of-deceit-disinformation-could-prove-the-most-powerful-weapon-of-all/
*The Spectator*
Book of the Week ‘The book is a thrilling demonstration of what
such resistance can look like, by one of the most clear-sighted and
unyielding critics writing today. We should all read it.’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/08/the-twittering-machine-richard-seymour-review-social-media-dystopia
*The Guardian*
Book of the Week ‘Time spent online is time deducted from our
lives, just as taking a selfie is an excuse to not be yourself . .
. if you really want to set yourself free, you should read a book –
preferably this one.’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/11/the-twittering-machine-richard-seymour-review-social-media-industry
*The Observer*
‘Why can’t we just quit Twitter?’ – mention of The Twittering
Machine
https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2019/08/why-can-t-we-just-quit-twitter
*New Statesman*
‘Taking in every sort of online nastiness, from trolling to
alt-right subcultures to ‘fake news’, Seymour’s compulsively argued
book may just be the intervention we all need.’
https://www.tatler.com/gallery/the-best-late-summer-reads
*Taler*
‘The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social
media’, extract from The Twittering Machine
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/23/social-media-addiction-gambling
*The Guardian Long Read*
‘an unflinching look at our toxic relationship with grim yet
compelling social media’
https://www.ft.com/content/d18e41d2-c3ff-11e9-a8e9-296ca66511c9?fbclid=IwAR1HFCxo-07RFlL69E3ZrT0RKjixhvD147GBMlH_jw8oaxmqqrAk-HW0hL0
*Financial Times*
'Books in the Media' ‘Critics have acclaimed Richard Seymour’s The
Twittering Machine (Indigo), a polemic against the rising tide of
social media, as “thrilling”, “unflinching” and “excoriating”’
https://booksinthemedia.thebookseller.com/articles/reviewers-click-like-on-the-twittering-machine
*The Bookseller*
‘his superb new book . . . treads between acute biting
psychological analysis and an account of how that form of
psychology has been set in place materially, historically.’
http://socialistresistance.org/left-hooked-on-twitter/18134?fbclid=IwAR0SNzqjqjGUdp0DWLpFilnt8r6ekVBLytZSg2-N4DS-Zy1sdzTqpAresJc
*Socialist Resistance*
‘The Twittering Machine is a book that not only gets to the heart
of social media’s deficits but is a joy to read.’
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/04/the-politics-of-trolling/
*Counter Punch*
‘We ae living through something unprecedented. An open-ended social
experiment funded by venture capitalism, supported bv the US
military and security state. An industrialised system of writing.
We’re writing more than ever before in human history. This is the
basis for the world’s most profitable industry: the social
industry.’
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5516/willing-servants
*New Humanist*
‘a digest of the burgeoning literature addressing the dangers of
being online’
http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2019/11/the-great-escape/
*The Literary Review of Canada*
‘yields an abundance of quotable insights’
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/dont-us/
*The Times Literary Supplement*
‘However clever, snarky or “fierce” our replies may be, we all know
we’re helping to spread the very messages we want to discredit’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/28/right-trolling-posts-political-opponents
*The Guardian*
‘Social media platforms did not create our crisis. They have only
stumbled on a way to profit from accelerating it, while magnifying
some of our worst tendencies. The toxicity is not just in our
tweets, but in ourselves.’
https://www.ft.com/content/abc86766-fa37-11e9-a354-36acbbb0d9b6
*Financial Times*
‘We are all authors. This is the argument that threads its way
through Richard Seymour’s brilliant new book … a must read’
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/browser-an-absorbing-short-story-collection-mixing-realism-fantasy-and-folktale-1.4072162
*The Irish Times*
‘Best books of the year 2019’ ‘Richard Seymour’s political writing
is essential reading; his The Twittering Machine (Indigo Press)
goes beyond moral panic about technology to map new terrain for
understanding “screen capitalism”, its violence and our desires’
https://www.newstatesman.com/best-books-this-year-2019
*New Statesman*
‘This is an extended theoretical reflection on the advent, impact
and power of social media in our daily lives – a serious and
excellent read.’
https://www.rs21.org.uk/2019/11/16/review-the-twittering-machine/
*Rs21*
‘the often dark and nasty aspect of online storms suggests that
they can go horribly awry. It is this, rather than the Twitter
revolution, that is the true future of global protests.’
https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2019/11/we-are-witnessing-end-twitter-revolution
*New Statesman*
‘Not only extends and improves Adorno’s arguments, but takes
insights from elsewhere to show the nightmares of the past 50
(plus) years of left thought are coming to fruition’
https://medium.com/@RT_Editing/utopia-dystopia-online-capitalism-300c16bd9376
*Medium*
‘the author’s fluid prose weaves searing philippics against social
media into an unwaveringly clear and perceptive argument, combining
the spontaneous energy of a blog-post with a rigorous intellectual
framework’
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/mind-forged-manacles
*New Left Review*
‘PTO Books of the year’ ‘he advances a Lacanian reading that
emphasises the curious absence of pleasure in our engagement with
the ‘Twittering Machine’, which disrupts and forecloses all other
desires that we might otherwise pursue.’
https://www.patreon.com/posts/32774027
*Politics Theory Order*
Interview with Richard Seymour
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/01/the-twittering-machine
*Tribune*
‘The Twittering Machine is undoubtedly a crucial and compelling
read in the landscape of technology and society’
https://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2020/01/opting-out-digital-serfdom
*Rabble*
Woke Biden Cabinet, Indian Strikes, & Social Media Industry w/
Richard Seymour Woke Biden Cabinet, Indian Strikes, & Social Media
Industry w/ Richard Seymour | Weekends (12/12/20)
*Jacobin Weekends*
‘Books of the Year’ Richard Seymour’s THE TWITTERING MACHINE
(Indigo Press, 2019) was a satisfyingly nuanced account of the
terrible bind we’re in, in relation to social media.’ – Katherine
Angel
https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/books-of-the-year-3/
*The White Review*
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