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1) Plastic
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental destruction in a surprising new mold. Erin is a plastic girl living in a plastic world. Every day she eats a breakfast of boiled chicken, then coveys her articulated body to Tablet Town, where she sells other figurines Smartbodies: wearable tech that allows full, physical immersion...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th century rebels, the Luddites, took up arms against the industrialists that were automating their work - and how it explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech today.
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Series
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After thirty years of retreat, the last decade has witnessed a resurgent left in the United States and Western Europe. This upsurge of anti-establishment candidates was not only left-wing but also populist. Though in most cases these movements ran out ofsteam before getting to a position to wield state power, many of the parties and figures associated with this wave of left populism have entered government and others are still contesting high office....
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