I Hate the Internet

by Jarett Kobek

Overview

What if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? Would you expect to be believed? What if you lived in a country swamped with Internet outrage? What if you were a woman living in a society that hated women?
In this, his first full-length novel, Jarett Kobek answers the questions of our moment: Why do we live with rank misery seeping from the world's cellphones and computers? Why do we applaud the enrichment of tech CEOs at the expense of the weak and the powerless? Why are we giving away our intellectual property? Why is activism in the 21st Century nothing more than a series of morality lectures typed into devices built by slaves?
Set in the San Francisco of 2013, amongst the victims of a Silicon Valley bubble, I Hate the Internet offers a hilarious and obscene indictment of our online lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996421805
Publisher:	We Heard You Like Books
Publication date:	02/07/2016
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

JARETT KOBEK is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novella ATTA has appeared in Spanish translation, been the subject of much academic writing and was a recent bestseller in parts of Canada. He writes regularly for museums and galleries, with his essays appearing under the auspices of Frieze, the Hammer Museum and White Cube.

Editorial Reviews

I Hate the Internet…[is] a grainy political and cultural rant, a sustained shriek about power and morality in a new global era. It's a glimpse at a lively mind at full boil…There's a bit of the French writer Michel Houellebecq in Mr. Kobek's profane satire. There's a bit of Thomas Piketty in his obsession with economic inequality. There's a bit of the Ambrose Bierce of The Devil's Dictionary in his ability to take words and ideas and invest them with uglier and thus usually more accurate meanings…This is a shaggy and quite entertaining novel of ideas…[that] has soul as well as nerve…My advice? Log off Twitter for a day. Pick this up instead.

The New York Times - Dwight Garner

"A riproaring, form-follows-function burlesque of the digital age that click-meanders its way like the ADHD freaks we're all becoming, while offering up compelling narrative lines that kept me clicking faster and faster. Read this book. Now." — Dodie Bellamy, The Letters of Mina Harker

"Kobek's writing continues to impress." — Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

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