About Event Horizon
Blurbs, recommendations, and purchase links for our book
In an age where Silicon Valley dictates what it means to innovate a painless future, knowledge and enjoyment are fertile breeding grounds of political contestation. But it’s not exactly democracy. We are controlled through platforms that turn us into data for the profit of billionaires. Control has become so playful that we carry it in our pockets, as we continue to crave likes and followers. What is to be done? Should the Left continue to cling to the promise of a political Event, patiently waiting for a revolutionary rupture where new possibilities emerge? Is there a way to delineate its horizons amidst the chaos?
Through a psychoanalytic interrogation of the intersections of online culture, sexuality, and politics, Bonni Rambatan and Jacob Johanssen explore such horizons at the limits of capitalism. Event Horizon examines how capitalist ideology functions in our current moment, and, more importantly, how it breaks down. With the increasing urgency of formulating a proper Leftist response to the rapidly growing violence that seriously threatens the lives of marginalised communities, this book could not be more timely.
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What people are saying
“A unique and compellingly written book, composed — not unlike a piece of music — of a radical dystopia and an equally radical utopia.” — Alenka Zupančič
“[Event Horizon] pairs interpretation of classic sources with critical foresight on all matters digital.” — Geert Lovink
“This bristling little book embarks on nothing less thank a total diagnosis of our sick capitalist present. [The authors] cut right to the chase in their incisive reading of forms of contemporary enjoyment online.” — Sianne Ngai
“[Event Horizon] is an excellent must-read for everyone who wants to understand how the subject thinks and acts in contemporary digital capitalism.” — Christian Fuchs
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