Amateurs!

Resumen del libro

Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of communication. What started as fun soon became currency, something vital to finding friends, work, and love.

Then, as 'meatspace' job security eroded, online creativity became work itself. Now an internet presence is no longer optional, platforms increasingly charge users. Whatever it is we're creating online, it isn't amateur anymore.

But is it art?In this scintillating philosophical history of the internet, Joanna Walsh, author of Girl Online, examines how and why creativity became the price of digital existence.

Biografía del autor

Joanna Walsh es una joven autora británica con gran éxito de crítica que ha colaborado en medios como The Guardian, New Statesman, Granta o The London Review of Books, entre muchos otros. Periférica publicó en 2018 su primera colección de cuentos, Vértigo. Es autora también de Hotel, Fractals, Grow A Pair o Break.up. Su inimitable estilo, onírico y preciso, sutil y sarcástico, ha conseguido mostrar la complejidad de los nomadismos afectivos de este siglo XXI. Mantiene varios perfiles en redes de un marcado activismo para dar a conocer la literatura escrita por mujeres.