A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive - Max Read - Bookforum Magazine
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A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive – Max Read
The Twittering Machine BY Richard Seymour. Brooklyn, NY: Verso. 256 pages. $26. Purchase this book: Bookshop • Amazon I QUIT TWITTER and Instagram in May, in the same manner I leave parties: abruptly, silently, and much later than would have been healthy. This was several weeks into New York City’s lockdown, and for those of us not employed by institutions deemed essential—hospitals, prisons, meatpacking plants—sociality was now entirely mediated by a handful of tech giants, with no meatspace escape route, and the platforms felt particularly, grimly pathetic. Instagram, cut off from a steady s
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