{"product_id":"dread-by-david-theo-goldberg-9781509544455","title":"Dread","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA pervasive sense has taken hold that any and all of us are under suspicion and surveillance, walking on a tightrope, a step away from erasure of rights or security. Nothing new for many long-targeted populations, it is now surfacing as a broad social sensibility, ramped up by environmental crisis and pandemic wreckage. We have come to live in proliferating dread, even of dread itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this brilliant analysis of the nature, origins, and implications of this gnawing feeling, David Theo Goldberg exposes tracking-capitalism as the operating system at the root of dread. In contrast to surveillance, which requires labour-intensive analysis of people's actions and communications, tracking strips back to the fundamental mapping of our movements, networks, and all traces of our digitally mediated lives. A simultaneous tearing of the social fabric – festering culture wars, the erosion of truth, even \"civil war\" itself – frays the seams of the sociality and solidarity needed to thwart this transformation of people into harvestable, expendable data.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis searing commentary offers a critical apparatus for interrogating the politics of our time, arguing that we need not just a politics of refusal and resistance, but a creative politics to counter the social life of \u003cem\u003eDread\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362558525676,"sku":"9781509544455","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12466803482725.jpg?v=1772892401","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/dread-by-david-theo-goldberg-9781509544455","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}