#56 The nightmare of social media w/ Richard Seymour

Richard Seymour joins me to discuss his new book, The Twittering
Machine. The title is taken from Paul Klee's 1922 painting in which
the the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure
humankind into a pit of damnation. Richard argues in the book that
this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with so-called
social media. We spoke about the nature of social media addiction,
the way in which the platforms incite users into performing unpaid
labour, and how we might conceive of repurposing the architecture
of the internet to more useful and humane ends.