Editorial Columbia
Fecha de edición mayo 2017 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780231175272
200 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
The great ideological cliche of our time, Cesar Rendueles argues in Sociophobia, is the idea that communication technologies can support positive social dynamics and improve economic and political conditions. We would like to believe that the Internet has given us the tools to overcome modernity's practical dilemmas and bring us into closer relation, but recent events show how technology has in fact driven us farther apart. Named one of the ten best books of the year by Babelia El Pais, Sociophobia looks at the root causes of neoliberal utopia's modern collapse. It begins by questioning the cyber-fetishist dogma that lulls us into thinking our passive relationship with technology plays a positive role in resolving longstanding differences. Rendueles claims that the World Wide Web has produced a diminished rather than augmented social reality. In other words, it has lowered our expectations with respect to political interventions and personal relations. In an effort to correct this trend, Rendueles embarks on an ambitious reassessment of our antagonistic political traditions to prove that post-capitalism is not only a feasible, intimate, and friendly system to strive for but also essential for moving past consumerism and political malaise.
César Rendueles nació en Girona en 1975, creció en Gijón y vive en Madrid. Profesor de sociología en la Universidad Complutense, investigador y traductor, ha dirigido proyectos culturales en el Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. Ha publicado los ensayos Sociofobia (2013) y Capitalismo canalla (Seix Barral, 2015), que lo consolidó como uno de los más destacados pensadores del panorama actual. Contra la igualdad de oportunidades (2020) es su último libro.
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