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1.6 billion users share their lives without a second thought of the consequences. This book highlights the dangers of taking Facebook at face value.
Social networks have taken society by storm and now stand at the heart of our day-to-day lives. Despite their undeniable upsides across all spheres of life, from one-to-one communication to politics and the economy, they pose obvious dangers as tools of control and manipulation. This essay goes far beyond such dangers however, delving into the hidden and seemingly innocent, harmless elements that give shape to life on Facebook: the notion of biography, the concept of friendship, the approval behind the "Like" button…
Using straightforward language and in keeping with the very finest classical and modern schools of thought, Vicente Serrano’s Fakebook reveals just what social networks are doing to us and how they interact with religion, ideology and mass culture, as well as ethics, politics and aesthetics.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vicente Serrano Marín, winner of the 2011 Anagrama Non-Fiction Prize with Spinoza’s Wound. Happiness and Politics in a Post-Modern World, has made a name for himself as one of the leading voices in the Spanish-speaking world on both sides of the Atlantic. His output is considerable, with noteworthy titles including Nihilism and Modernity.
Dialectic of the Anti-Renaissance (2005), The Absolute and Consciousness. An Introduction to Schelling (2008), Dreaming of Monsters. Horror and Delirium in the Modern Age (2010)
—all published by Plaza y Valdés—, The Digital Revolution and the Information Society, co-authored with Guiomar Salvat (2011), Still Life. The Aesthetic Gaze and the Modern Labyrinth (2014) and The Bio-Political Order (2016).
Vicente Serrano has a Law Degree and a Degree and a PhD in Philosophy, as well as a Diploma in Constitutional Law and Politics. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at Universidad Austral de Chile, where he heads the Institute of Philosophy and the Graduate School in the Faculty of Philosophy and the Humanities.
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- Publisher Plaza y Valdes
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788416032853
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 12 EUR
- Pages120
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleFRAUDEBOOK: LO QUE LA RED HACE CON NUESTRAS /
- Copyright Year2016
- Dimensions13 x 19.5 cm
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