Hacking Life
Systematized Living and Its Discontents
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
18 February 2020
Summary
In an effort to keep up with a world of too much, life hackers sometimes risk going too far.Life hackers track and analyze the food they eat, the hours they sleep, the money they spend, and how they’re feeling on any given day. They share tips on the most efficient ways to tie shoelaces and load the dishwasher; they employ a tomato-shaped kitchen timer as a time-management tool.They see everything as a system composed of parts that can be decomposed and recomposed, with algorithmic rules that…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262538992 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262538997 |
| Author: | Joseph Reagle |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 18 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Strong Ideas |
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Critics Review
This insightful, evenhanded book… delves into the motivations and mindset of “life hackers,”…. [a] lively, well-written take.
—Publishers WeeklyThe book not only lays bare an increasingly popular ethos of our time, but also exposes the layers of exploitation it potentially engenders…. Insightful, and simultaneously disturbing.
—LSE Review of BooksA comprehensive look at the recent history and major personalities (also known as “the Geeks and the Gurus”) associated with the emergent phenomenon known as “life hacking.”
—ScienceHacking Life is to be welcomed as a useful meditation on the neoliberal culture of our time and the kinds of selves we are rapidly becoming in this digital age.
—Times Higher EducationLife hacking was (and is), as Reagle explains, a pursuit of the “creative class,” a product of privilege, and sometimes a disease of it.
—SlateAbout The Author
Joseph Reagle
Joseph M. Reagle, Jr., is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He is the author of Good Faith Collaboration, Reading the Comments, and Hacking Life, all published by the MIT Press.
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