
Gadget Consciousness
Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media
Series: Digital Barricades

Gadget Consciousness examines the transformation of our consciousness as a historical political force in two senses: as individual consciousness - in terms of sentience and will - and also as class consciousness. Exploring a range of manifestations in the digital commons, he investigates what forms digital solidarity can take, and asks whether we can learn from the communisms of the past and how might solidarity be manifested in the future?
Today, the ubiquity of networked gadgets offers exciting new opportunities for social and political change, but also significant dangers of alienation and stupefaction.
Joss Hands is Reader in Critical Theory at Newcastle University. He is the author of Gadget Consciousness: Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media and @ is For Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in Digital Culture.
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Question Concerning Gadgets
2. Gadget Materialism
3. Gadget Brain
4. Gadget Consciousness
5. Gadget Action
6. Gadget Futures
Bibliography
Index
eBook ISBN: 9781786802583
135mm x 215mm