Social media and the data behemoth is described as the 'twittering machine' that we feed our lives into, with its constant need to consume our time and attention as its fuel. “The core of irony is almost always a passionate commitment which can’t be expressed in any other way.” Politics and hope are being blocked by endless, pointless, fruitless writing. 226 pp. The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour review – our descent into a digital dystopia A stark polemic argues that social media may have unleashed an …
While a frequent reference point in the ‘Each of us keeps our phone close, Seymour observes, “charged at all times. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard Seymour, author of Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics argues that this is a chilling metaphor for our relationship with social media.In surrealist artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Seymour's leitmotif is "writing". The delightful but somewhat unsettling Twittering Machine, by Paul Klee, depicts an impossible, fragile looking contraption that holds four mechanical creatures that look like hybrids of birds and elaborate fishing lures. Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine) is a 1922 watercolor and pen and ink oil transfer on paper by Swiss-German painter Paul Klee. Maybe 3.5. What we do.
Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine) is a 1922 watercolor and pen and ink oil transfer on paper by Paul Klee. However, it is as another Goodreads contributor stated: "a melancholy book" or as Seymour more starky describes his own work: "a horror story". Like other artworks by Klee, it blends biology and machinery, depicting a loosely sketched group of birds on a wire or branch connected to a hand-crank. However, Seymour's larger point is that the logic of social media lends itself to singularities. Originally displayed in Germany, the image was declared "The picture depicts a group of birds, largely line drawings; all save the first are shackled on a wire or, according to Sometimes, the image is perceived as quite dark. The internet is also a metaphorical net, which traps us in a suffocating regime of endless writing, reading and data capture, where there is nothing outside of the text. Originally displayed in Germany, the image was declared "The picture depicts a group of birds, largely line drawings; all save the first are shackled on a wire or, according to Sometimes, the image is perceived as quite dark.
Engagement or "time on device" leads to depression (that most indiRichard Seymour claims to have written this book in a state of "monastic isolation." Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine) is a 1922 watercolor and pen and ink oil transfer on paper by Swiss-German painter Paul Klee. While Seymour does not claim to provide answers or strategies, he is attempting he says to try and work out "a new language for what is coming into being" thanks to our increasing thrall to the Twittering Machine.This was an OK book, but I really thought it should have been better. There aren’t many books about people in their 20s who move to Silicon Valley with dreams of earning a living wag...In surrealist artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. It is designed to be addictive, to use extreme reactions to material to increase our engagementRichard Seymour claims to have written this book in a state of "monastic isolation." Not to my ‘concretist’ tastes, I guess.Extremely disappointing. Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine) is one of the clearest examples of this visualisation of music. MoMA suggests that, while evocative of an "abbreviated pastoral", the painting inspires "an uneasy sensation of looming menace" as the birds themselves "appear closer to deformations of nature".Without drawing conclusions on emotional impact, Werckmeister, in 1989's Wheye and Kennedy suggest that the picture may represent a sound The bird with an exclamation point in its mouth represents the twitter's full volume; the one with an arrow in its beak symbolizes an accompanying shrillness – a horizontal thrust of piercing song. It is as though, one day, it’s going to bring us the message we’ve been waiting for.”’ It is also salutary. In surrealist artist Paul Klee’s The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. I am, in effect, retiring from hifi [footnote 2 (7.18.20)]. It is designed to be addictiveA brilliant essay on what we are really doing when we scroll through social media feeds. Violence belongs to human beings, not machines, and we are all capable of it. That might suggest a certain disconnect between the relentlessly social nature of the "Twittering Machine" and the standpoint of the author himself. Seymour's leitmotif is "writing". Multivarious points of view are focused and honed into a single, hive opinion, one whose ever narrowing boundaries of acceptable discourse are policed by other members of the swarm. There were some really interesting portions surrounding our use of the internet, online celebrity, trolling and lies and there were some other sections that didn't seem to add much. Start by marking “The Twittering Machine” as Want to Read: