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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2020 7:43:10 GMT
Control, Power and Resistance in the 21st Century. Interview with Cory Doctorow.
What is the relationship between technology, society and politics? Is the former merely a tool for social control, or can it also open up new vistas of possibility and freedom? How can one become the other, and what does resistance look like in a world where culture, and digital culture, are increasingly constitutive of one another? Where the screen and the non-screen come together to form a hybrid reality in which we all live?
These are all themes which run through the work of author and technologist Cory Doctorow. His latest book is Attack Surface, which examines themes of surveillance, resistance and ethics in a world of technological control. In this interview with Aaron Bastani Doctorow discusses all that and more, examining the role of the digital giants in the 21st century, how social movements fight back and whether Facebook should be banned.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2020 13:44:36 GMT
Attack Surface by Cody Doctorow.
www.amazon.co.uk/Attack-Surface-Cory-Doctorow/dp/1250757533Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface is a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene. Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause was just. It was a dangerous game and a hell of a rush. But seriously self-destructive. And unsustainable. When her targets were strangers in faraway police states, it was easy to compartmentalize, to ignore the collateral damage of murder, rape, and torture. But when it hits close to home, and the hacks and exploits she's devised are directed at her friends and family--including boy wonder Marcus Yallow, her old crush and archrival, and his entourage of naïve idealists--Masha realizes she has to choose. And whatever choice she makes, someone is going to get hurt.
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