Preface by Ian Parker
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
A Brief Take on "Internet Addiction" in Psychology
Chapter 3
Schizoanalysis, Technology, and Sociality
Chapter 4
Users and Technologies of Self
Chapter 5
Extraction Machine of Social Media
Chapter 6
Data Collection and the Relational Factory
Chapter 7
Conclusion
Biography
Emaline Friedman, Ph.D., is an independent scholar and psychosocial theorist. Her research interests cover all forms of digital control and exploitation: data capitalism, platform labor, AI-enabled bigotry, and software cultures. She works on distributed ledger technologies to steer networked social organization toward human solidarity initiatives, environmental regeneration, and other forms of commoning.
"There may be no more pressing matter for the emerging world of 21st-century capitalism than the question of addiction. Up until now, the current array of theoretical formulations for addiction as a concept and social set of practices, both remediative and explanatory, have been of limited utility. This volume offers an innovative and convincing intervention into how we might think of addiction as an integral aspect of contemporary capitalist logic and as a way of understanding emerging modes of alternative engagements that may offer new worlds and new peoples. Utilizing Deleuzo-Guattarian schizoanalytics the book offers both overdue new methodological tactics of inquiry as well as introducing addiction as a social configuration rather than an individual pathology. The proposals for new forms of sociality and subjectivity offer life affirming alternatives to the death drive of late stage capitalism."— Hans Skott-Myhre, Professor of Human Services, Kennesaw State University, USA
