{"product_id":"ghosting-by-dominic-pettman-9781509569953","title":"Ghosting","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbandonment is as old as time, but ghosting is a modern twist on this ancient experience. It translates this age-old phenomenon into our modern world of screens, delete buttons, and blocking options. Ghosting is not only an unpleasant experience or cowardly act, but a symptom of our increasingly spectral – that is, mediated and virtual – relationship to the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe overabundance of new modes of communication has invited an almost infinite number of contacts and conversations. At the same time, it has also offered an unprecedented opportunity for \u003ci\u003eignoring\u003c\/i\u003e messages from others. And just as we invented the car crash when we invented automobiles, we also encouraged ghosting when we created the internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGhosting creates an empty space in our minds: a space faithfully tracing the silhouette of the one who ghosted us. But unlike traditional ghosts, today’s ghosters simply disappear, leaving behind a form of haunting that is closer to mourning: mourning for someone who is not in fact dead. In putting a kind of preemptive mourning into our everyday affairs, ghosting tells us much about the current human relationship – or \u003ci\u003enon\u003c\/i\u003e-relationship – to a shared sense of mortality, purpose, and spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhosting\u003c\/i\u003e – the first sustained analysis of ghosting – traces the source of this vexed experience to, and through, our current media ecology, technological networks, political landscape, collective psychology, romantic mantras, and deep sense of social neglect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854558515436,"sku":"9781509569953","price":30.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/b53e4beeb0bc968728733cfac451511c.jpg?v=1759268527","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/ghosting-by-dominic-pettman-9781509569953","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}