
Future Histories
What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
By: Lizzie O'Shea
Hardcover | 1 July 2019
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What, she asks, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources-like the Internet-in common? Can debates over equal digital access be guided by Tom Paine's theories of democratic, economic redistribution? And, how is Elon Musk not a visionary but a throwback to Victorian-era utopians?
In engaging, sparkling prose, O'Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is, and what potential exists for struggle, for liberation, for art and poetry in our digital present. Future Histories is for all of us-makers, coders, hacktivists, Facebook-users, self-styled Luddites-who find ourselves in a brave new world.
About the Author
Lizzie O'Shea is a lawyer, writer, and broadcaster. She is regularly featured on national television programs and radio to comment on law, digital technology, corporate responsibility, and human rights, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, and The Sydney Morning Herald, among others.
Industry Reviews
"There has never been a better time to pull the politics of platform capitalism into the foreground where it belongs. Lizzie O'Shea brings a hacker's curiosity, a historian's reach and a lawyer's precision to bear on our digitally saturated present, emerging with a compelling argument that a better world is there for the taking." - Scott Ludlam
"A thought-provoking text for readers looking to approach the subject [of digital technologies] from a well-informed ... perspective." - Engineering and Technology Magazine
"Polemical and eclectic." - Choice
"There's plenty of history in Future Histories, but the perspective is polemical and eclectic: a pinch of socialism, a dash of anarchism, relentless strictures on digital misconduct, and, throughout, a salutary call to use technology to fulfill humanity's potential." - T. P. Johnson, Choice
"In engaging, sparkling prose, O'Shea shows us how very human our understanding of technology is, and what potential exists for struggle, for liberation, for art and poetry in our digital present." - New Books Network
"O'Shea's approach is avowedly episodic as she mines history for illuminating gems." - Hettie O'brien, Times Literary Supplement
"This insightful, provocative book is an intellectual kaleidoscope that sits effortlessly at the crossroads between investigation, history and radical philosophy." - Victorian Premier's Literary Award panel
"A startlingly original book, one that belies comparison to most other books... Although it is not, I would argue, a fair expectation that writers who analyse or expose societal problems should also be the ones to prescribe the remedies to solve them, this hefty task is one that O'Shea takes on with aplomb and considerable skill." - Ruby Hamad, Meanjin
ISBN: 9781788734301
ISBN-10: 1788734300
Published: 1st July 2019
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 336
Publisher: VERSO
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.5 x 3.5
Weight (kg): 0.64
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