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3.38 AVERAGE
3.38 AVERAGE
Uma discussão sobre o que fica para trás e o que não é levado em conta quando pensamos que basta conectar a humanidade à internet que tudo vai se resolver. Uma boa ideia de um ensaio estendida por muito mais páginas do que (acho) necessário.
challenging
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
Some interesting information, but nothing new; absolutely horrendously organized.
There is no structure, many typos, and the same thing repeated ad nauseam. It became such a distraction that even the parts I liked started to grate on me and the last 75 pages were just a slog.
It seems that he does more quoting than actual original writing, and when it is his writing it is often self-congratulatory (he often mentions his position at top universities in the same breath as singing his respect of indigenous communities frameworks of knowledge), or just too much irrelevant information about the day-to-day of his field work. Not that that information can’t be helpful, but in this case it just seemed random with nothing to anchor it back to whatever point he was trying to make. A point which was opaque at times. To remedy this he would say something seemingly unrelated to the point he was making (or his thesis) and then close out the paragraph with some version of “that’s why ‘global village’ is a patronizing term”, or some drivel about ontology to try and bring it back to something resembling a cogent argument.
He has scattered mentions of neoliberalism, colonialism, and imperialism throughout the book, but says very little about the nestled dependencies between globalization of technology and capitalism and the objectification of users within systems of capitalism. He mentions it, quotes Foucault, then moves on to other tangential information. It is baffling!
I obviously had some issues with this book. It has some good information but was just so poorly constructed and written that it ultimately removed much of the good it was trying to impart.
On the plus side he quoted many great authors whose work I shall now go and read
, instead of this.
There is no structure, many typos, and the same thing repeated ad nauseam. It became such a distraction that even the parts I liked started to grate on me and the last 75 pages were just a slog.
It seems that he does more quoting than actual original writing, and when it is his writing it is often self-congratulatory (he often mentions his position at top universities in the same breath as singing his respect of indigenous communities frameworks of knowledge), or just too much irrelevant information about the day-to-day of his field work. Not that that information can’t be helpful, but in this case it just seemed random with nothing to anchor it back to whatever point he was trying to make. A point which was opaque at times. To remedy this he would say something seemingly unrelated to the point he was making (or his thesis) and then close out the paragraph with some version of “that’s why ‘global village’ is a patronizing term”, or some drivel about ontology to try and bring it back to something resembling a cogent argument.
He has scattered mentions of neoliberalism, colonialism, and imperialism throughout the book, but says very little about the nestled dependencies between globalization of technology and capitalism and the objectification of users within systems of capitalism. He mentions it, quotes Foucault, then moves on to other tangential information. It is baffling!
I obviously had some issues with this book. It has some good information but was just so poorly constructed and written that it ultimately removed much of the good it was trying to impart.
On the plus side he quoted many great authors whose work I shall now go and read
, instead of this.
About the way that tech is usually implemented in a top down fashion and the implications that has on the communities and the people involved. Definitely brings up things I hadn't thought about before and learned lots. I especially enjoyed the sections about the Native Americans and the Zapatistas and their distrust of academia in general and the way technology can be viewed by people in rural peopke all over the world.