Richard Seymour
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Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political life?
In an analysis which challenges our understanding of capitalism, class and ideology, Richard Seymour shows how 'austerity' is just one...
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Una brillante investigación sobre los efectos políticos y psicológicos de nuestra cambiante relación con los medios sociales.
Los antiguos ejecutivos de la industria social nos dicen que el sistema es una máquina de adicción. Somos usuarios que esperamos histéricos nuestro próximo éxito, con sus likes, sus comentarios y su difusión compartida. Escribimos a la máquina como individuos, pero esta nos responde agregando nuestros deseos, fantasías...
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In artist Paul Klee's The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer Richard Seymour argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media. Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds...
5) Pioneering in the Pampas: Or, the First Four Years of a Settler's Experience in the la Plata Camps
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Richard Arthur Seymour (1843-1906) as he tells us, sailed from Liverpool in January, 1865, with the intention of making a rapid fortune by cattle and sheep-farming in the Argentine Republic. In his 1869 book "Pioneering in the Pampas" before us he gives an unpretending plain unvarnished narrative of a settler's experience during four years of cattle and sheep farming on the Pampas of South America.
The author and his companion, after having gained...