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I Hate the Internet - Jarett Kobek

I Hate the Internet

By: Jarett Kobek

Paperback | 7 February 2016

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What if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? Would you expect to be believed? What if you lived in a country swamped with Internet outrage? What if you were a woman living in a society that hated women?
In this, his first full-length novel, Jarett Kobek answers the questions of our moment: Why do we live with rank misery seeping from the world's cellphones and computers? Why do we applaud the enrichment of tech CEOs at the expense of the weak and the powerless? Why are we giving away our intellectual property? Why is activism in the 21st Century nothing more than a series of morality lectures typed into devices built by slaves?
Set in the San Francisco of 2013, amongst the victims of a Silicon Valley bubble, I Hate the Internet offers a hilarious and obscene indictment of our online lives.
Industry Reviews
Kobek has a gift for seeing things from a different angle and for uncovering lies and invisible structures of society, and he does it in a playful, anarchistic and quirky way. The rows of association in this book will keep you entertained and baffled. -Dorthe Nors, author of Karate Chop A riproaring, form-follows-function burlesque of the digital age that click-meanders its way like the ADHD freaks we re all becoming while offering up compelling narrative lines that kept me clicking faster and faster. Read this book. Now. -Dodie Bellamy, author of The Letters of Mina Harker" Kobek's writing continues to impress. -- Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick "A riproaring, form-follows-function burlesque of the digital age that click-meanders its way like the ADHD freaks we're all becoming, while offering up compelling narrative lines that kept me clicking faster and faster. Read this book. Now." -- Dodie Bellamy, The Letters of Mina Harker "Kobek's writing continues to impress." -- Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

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