1st Edition
How Digital Screen Use Alienates Human Societies A Treatise on Social Magic and Its Decadence
By Vidar Halldorsson
Copyright 2027
204 Pages
5 Color & 23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
5 Color & 23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Halldorsson’s How Digital Screen Use Alienates Human Societies examines recent processes of technological rationalism, which were intensified by the Covid-pandemic, and explores how they alienate human societies in the name of progress. Challenging the prevailing assumptions of such ‘progress’, the book argues that these processes undermine the essential ‘social magic’ – the everyday human... Read more
1. Illusion of Progress and the Social Argument. 2. Social Chemistry and the Magic of Human Connection. 3. Technological Rationalism, Consumer Capitalism, and Re‑Enchantment. 4. Screen Society and Visual Alienation. 5. Screen‑Based Interaction and the Loss of Meaning. 6. Reviving the Social.
Biography
Vidar Halldorsson, PhD., is a professor of sociology at the University of Iceland, and a guest lecturer at De Montfort University in Leicester England.
