{"title":"Ben Tarnoff","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to our collection featuring the works of \u003cem\u003eBen Tarnoff\u003c\/em\u003e, an insightful author who delves into the complexities of digital landscapes and their impact on society. Known for his captivating writing style, Tarnoff explores themes within the realm of \u003cstrong\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/strong\u003e, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the digital world's evolving dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of his notable works, \u003cem\u003eInternet for the People\u003c\/em\u003e, exemplifies his ability to unravel intricate topics and present them in an engaging manner. In this book, Tarnoff critiques the current state of the Internet, advocating for a more accessible and democratised online space. His thought-provoking analysis encourages readers to question and contemplate the socio-political structures governing our digital interactions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBen Tarnoff's contributions are indispensable for those interested in the intersections of technology, politics, and social change. His writings offer a fresh perspective, urging us to reconsider who controls the Internet and how it shapes our everyday lives. Explore this collection to discover Tarnoff's passionate arguments for a more equitable digital future.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"internet-for-the-people-by-ben-tarnoff-9781839762024","title":"Internet for the People","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eInternet for the People\u003c\/em\u003e, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut the internet wasn't always like this—it had to be remade for the purposes of profit maximisation, through a years-long process of privatisation that turned a small research network into a powerhouse of global capitalism. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatisation that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe solution to those crises is straightforward: deprivatise the internet. Deprivatisation aims at creating an internet where people, and not profit, rule. It calls for shrinking the space of the market and diminishing the power of the profit motive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt calls for abolishing the walled gardens of Google, Facebook, and the other giants that dominate our digital lives and developing publicly and cooperatively owned alternatives that encode real democratic control. To build a better internet, we need to change how it is owned and organised. Not with an eye towards making markets work better, but towards making them less dominant. Not in order to create a more competitive or more rule-bound version of privatisation, but to overturn it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOtherwise, a small number of executives and investors will continue to make choices on everyone’s behalf, and these choices will remain tightly bound by the demands of the market. It's time to demand an internet by, and for, the people now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849320747244,"sku":"9781839762024","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/519273482843.jpg?v=1759040199"},{"product_id":"muskism-by-ben-tarnoff-9780241805114","title":"Muskism","description":"A pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age\n\nWho on earth is Elon Musk and what is he doing? Is he a hero, a villain, or does he swing constantly between those two poles? According to the constant media gush driven by his every act and pronouncement, Musk is best understood in personal terms. This book argues differently. Rather than seeing Musk as an individual, it sees him as an avatar of something called Muskism- a playbook for our new postliberal age.\n\nIt's not that Musk himself holds a coherent set of beliefs; you could say his life is one long improvisation. And he's certainly never used the word Muskism - just as, a century ago, Henry Ford never used Fordism to define his own postliberal modernity. In exploring the forces that have shaped Musk, from South Africa to Silicon Valley, Space X to DOGE, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff outline the motifs and practices that have come to dominate our own crisis-ridden world.\n\nMuskism, they show, speaks the language of crisis and emergency to invoke a less human future- where humans are purged from the productive process and, through social media and video games, merged with the machine. This is a worldview in which the technocrat is king; which piggybacks on the state to achieve supremacy; and in which only a select few deserve salvation. If you enter, this book warns you, you will grind and you will live in the shadow of one man - but the rewards could be priceless and the alternative might be extinction.","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288613961964,"sku":"9780241805114","price":55.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/60408faa76c98b86360abecb82fb354b.jpg?v=1770606184"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/ben-tarnoff.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}