Disconnect (eBook)

A Personal Journey Through the Internet

Roisin Kiberd (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-731-2 (ISBN)

Infos

We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local shopping centres, what do night gyms owe to Twitter, and where can we really go to get some decent sleep? Our every move online is watched, but can we see ourselves? In these wide-ranging, witty essays, Roisin Kiberd offers immersive insight into the strange worlds, habits and people who have grown up with the internet, and shows the way our world is changing to fit the online fever-dream. Unsettling, clear-sighted and perversely fun, she traces the lines between Netflix and nap hotels, vaporwave music and camgirls, self-optimisation and insomnia, dating apps and a grand unified theory of Monster Energy Drinks. As well as holding up the zeitgeist for scrutiny, she turns an equally frank eye on her own life online, and asks what we have gained, what we have lost, and what we have given willingly away in exchange for this connected world.

Rezensionen

Excellent: full of sharp analysis of life online, insomnia, dating apps and with a grand unified theory of Monster Energy drinks ... I felt both seen and like I could see more after reading this collection.

One of our brightest young writers.

Superb

It's sharp, sad and funny ... If you, like me, have ever had to cut yourself off from an endless scroll and then felt the existential weight of being at once plugged into and removed from the rest of the world, then this book is for you.

Spectacular. A book that takes on, makes sense of, and triumphs over that shapeless techno-dread with which we're now so sickeningly familiar. It's lion-hearted in its honesty, and insightful to the point of brilliance. All I'd hoped for and exactly what I needed.

Kiberd's writing is funny and frank, punchy and poetic, emotional and earnest. She writes with bravery and honesty about her struggles with depression, bulimia and anxiety

A rare and wonderful attempt to acknowledge that, for many of us now, the distinction between "real-life" and the more nebulous realities that the internet provides us with have, in a very real sense, broken down.

Kiberd has a knack for describing with laser precision the shape and mood of an event, experience or emotion and a real skill for applied analysis.

Both a warning about our lives in the worst of all possible worlds and the silent scream of every child birthed in the Internet's fractured womb. A long overdue message delivered by a writer with a first-rate intellect and curiosity who's unafraid to turn heat-vision on the self and, thus, all selves.

This excavation of internet life was a treat

Illuminating and insightful ... Fresh and unique

Kiberd is an enlightening and laser-sharp conversationalist, always keen to pursue a tangent if she sees one running off into the distance. Her book is equal parts absorbing and disconcerting, while her weaving of opinions, in-depth research and confessional soul-searching is indicative of a writer unafraid to poke her nose into areas usually left covered ... Sharp-witted, self-aware, extremely confessional

Made me cry, laugh and feel less alone.

I can't wait for Roisin Kiberd's The Disconnect - the sharpest writer with the most glorious and zippy mind.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.3.2021
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley • Anxiety • Digital detox, internet addiction • emilie pine • essays by women • how to do nothing • Insomnia • Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror • lauren oyler • my year of rest and relaxation • Patricia Lockwood • Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-731-0 / 1782837310
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-731-2 / 9781782837312