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It traces how social media functions as ideology, how distraction restructures attention and agency, and how platform architectures enable technological violence. Through themes such as minimal self-representation, faceless mask design, meme strategy, and the struggle to build commons, the book analyzes the politics of networks from registration onward.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nSad by Design  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDigital Barricades: Interventions in Digital Culture and Politics  \nSeries editors:  \nProfessor Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Dr Joss Hands, Newcastle University Professor Tim Jordan, University of  \nSussex  \nAlso available:  \nShooting a Revolution:  \nVisual Media and Warfare in Syria  \nDonatella Della Ratta  \nCyber-Proletariat:  \nGlobal Labour in the Digital Vortex  \nNick Dyer-Witheford  \nThe Digital Party:  \nPolitical Organisation and Online Democracy  \nPaolo Gerbaudo  \nGadget Consciousness:  \nCollective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media  \nJoss Hands  \nInformation Politics: Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society Tim Jordan  \nUnreal Objects:  \nDigital Materialities, Technoscientific Projects and Political Realities  \nKate O’Riordan  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nSad by Design  \nOn Platform Nihilism  \nGeert Lovink  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFirst published 2019 by Pluto Press  \n345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA [www.plutobooks.com](www.plutobooks.com)  \nCopyright © Geert Lovink 2019  \nThe right of Geert Lovink to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN 978 0 7453 3935 1 Hardback ISBN 978 0 7453 3934 4 Paperback ISBN 978 1 7868 0451 8 PDF eBook ISBN 978 1 7868 0453 2 Kindle eBook ISBN 978 1 7868 0452 5 EPUB eBook  \nThis book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental standards of the country of origin.  \nTypeset by Stanford DTP Services, Northampton, England  \nSimultaneously printed in the United Kingdom and United States of America  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nSeries Preface  \nAcknowledgements  \nIntroduction: Society of the Social  \n1. Overcoming the Disillusioned Internet  \n2. Social Media as Ideology  \n3. Distraction and its Discontents  \n4. Sad by Design  \n5. Media Network Platform: Three Architectures  \n6. From Registration to Extermination: On Technological Violence  \n7. Narcissus Confirmed: Technologies of the Minimal Selfie  \n8. Mask Design: Aesthetics of the Faceless  \n9. Memes as Strategy: European Origins and Debates  \n10. Before Building the Avant-Garde of the Commons  \nNotes  \nBibliography  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nSeries Preface  \nCrisis and conflict open up opportunities for liberation. In the early twentyfirst century, these moments are marked by struggles enacted over and across the boundaries of the virtual, the digital, the actual, and the real. Digital cultures and politics connect people even as they simultaneously place them under surveillance and allow their lives to be mined for advertising. This series aims to intervene in such cultural and political conjunctures. It features critical explorations of the new terrains and practices of resistance, producing critical and informed explorations of the possibilities for revolt and liberation.  \nEmerging research on digital cultures and politics investigates the effects of the widespread digitization of increasing numbers of cultural objects, the new channels of communication swirling around us and the changing means of producing, remixing and distributing digital objects. This research tends to oscillate between agendas of hope, that make remarkable claims for increased participation, and agendas of fear, that assume expanded repression and commodification. To avoid the opposites of hope and fear, the books in this series aggregate around the idea of the barricade. As sources of enclosure as well as defenses for liberated space, barricades are erected where struggles are fierce and the stakes are high. 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