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Title	:	Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control
Author	:	Derrick Jensen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 296 pages
Published	:	September 15th 2004 by Chelsea Green Publishing Company (first published July 1st 2004)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Politics. Science. Philosophy. Computers. Hackers

Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control Paperback | Pages: 296 pages

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You could call them the Monkeywrench Gang of the nanotech age. Derrick Jensen and George Draffan are taking down the data mining industry, one converted mind at a time. In the face of RFID chips, consumer tracking strategies, and illegal government wiretapping, Jensen and Draffan are determined to show consumers how to fight back against government and industry to regain their rights, their privacy, and their humanity. In their new book, Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control, Jensen and Draffan take a hart-hitting look at the way technology is used as a machine, to control us and our environment. Their results are startling.

If the prospect of perpetual surveillance and psychological warfare alarms you, you are not alone. Most people would be disturbed if you told them that everything from their store purchases to their public transit rides are recorded and filed for government or corporate access. But more often than not, the smooth, silent cleanliness of its operation allows the Machine of Western Civilization to go unnoticed. In Welcome to the Machine, Jensen and Draffan draw our attention back to its eerie, persistent white noise and take a cold, hard, human look at the cultural conditions that have led us to all but surrender to its hum.

Jensen and Draffan, who teamed up in 2003 to expose industrial corruption and destruction in Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests, are back to reveal both the terrifying extent of surveillance today and our chilling complacency at the loss of everything from consumer privacy to civil liberties. In this timely and important new collaboration, Jensen and Draffan take on all aspects of Control Culture: everything from the government's policy of total information awareness to a disturbing new technology where soldiers can be given medication to prevent them from feeling fear. They write about pharmaceutical packaging that reports consumer information, which is then used to send targeted drug advertisements directly to your TV.

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Original Title:	Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control
ISBN:	1931498520 (ISBN13: 9781931498524)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.8 From 282 Users | 25 Reviews

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The book is about exactly what the title suggests-the culture of data gathering, encroachment of rights, surveillance and the science and corporate interests behind it all. It explores such things as RFID chips, biometrics, the ubiquitous use of cameras in some industrialized nations and a variety of other topics. It's a vehement book and sometimes a little over the top in stressing the dangers of all these things, but that's by design, I'm sure. Interesting read. Bear in mind that this book is

There are plenty of reasons to be horrified by the conducts of our government. This book almost makes it seem like you could invents stuff and be right.

Maddening, enlightening, frightening.

Oh man, we are so totally fucked. The Culture of Control isnt on the horizon, it is here, and Jensen and Draffan arent so much warning us as setting the jumper cables to our brains trying to shock us into resistance. While ostensibly a look at wide-spreading tentacles of surveillance used by governments and corporations, they use this as another platform from which they explicate and condemn modern civilizationusing the Panopticon, early prison design as a touchstone metaphor. Frightening,

I really liked this book in college, but the truth is that Derrick Jensen is a terrible person -- and if you're looking for a deep thinker worth following, he's not it. I apologize for my formerly glowing review. It's retracted.

there's some interesting stuff here, but it'd be better to just skip it and stick to Jensen's central trilogy (Language Older Than Words, Culture Of Make Believe, and Endgame)

TBR as soon as it arrives via mail order