Hungry Ghosts in the Machine

<p><em>Hungry Ghosts in the Machine: Digital Capitalism and the Search for Self </em>examines the ways in which social and other digital media utilize nostalgia to heighten anxiety depression and alienation while offering fleeting cures which only ultimately lead to a cycle of longing and at most only temporary satiation. It is argued that wellbeing and spiritual practice freed of the compulsive aspect of social media use might form a useful role in a wider socialist movement. Digital era addiction psychedelics AI and memes meet Adorno Deleuze Fisher Maté Roderick Sontag Zizek The Beatles and Metallica in Watson's characteristically cornucopian dive into the ills of 21st century living and dying. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>