Sociophobia

Cesar Rendueles is a professor of sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid.

• Foreword: Culture Industry 2.0, or the End of Digital Utopias in the Era of Participation Culture, by Roberto Simanowski Ground Zero: Sociophobia 1. Digital Utopia 2. After Capitalism Coda: 1989 Notes Index

The enthralling Sociophobia urges us to critically rethink certain fundamental terms of our times, such as cooperation, compromise, community, and participation, and it reminds us of the extent to which we are only partially rational beings-fragile, and wholly codependent. -- Lucia del Moral Espin Revista Redes Rendueles's book transcends the national context in which it was written, and, without exaggeration, goes to the heart of the contemporary problem of political organization, as it concerns radical protest and resistance movements. The refreshing aspect of Sociophobia is its sober approach to the role of new media in fomenting alternative political structures. -- Michael Marder, IKERBASQUE Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country and professor at large in the Humanities Institute at the University of Diego Portales Sociophobia is already a landmark book in the Spanish-language world. With his contrarian perspective on the emancipatory capability of social networks, copyleft, and other forms of activism in the digital era, Rendueles will have a major impact on global debates about technology and postcapitalism. -- Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis