{"product_id":"dread-the-politics-of-our-time-9781509544455","title":"Dread: The Politics of Our Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Theo Goldberg\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 \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 labor-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 \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 dread.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45203620069527,"sku":"9781509544455","price":1442.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781509544455.webp?v=1769208743","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dread-the-politics-of-our-time-9781509544455","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}