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silodear's review
1.0
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.
prcizmadia's review
1.0
Maybe some people are able to get down with Jensen's schtick. I can't. He takes something that is serious-- the pervasiveness of technology and social control-- and wastes all that potential on hyperbole and unhinged complaint. It is incredibly un-academic. I recommend this to no one.
marcantel's review
3.0
What could have been a great book under the supervision of an (authoritarian?) editor is instead a stream-of-consciousness hodgepodge of reflections on the death of privacy in the name of security. The book begins with a reflection of Foucault's analysis of Bentham's panopticon, which in the authors' view is the model for control in the surveillance society. Unfortunately, this kind of analysis is not sustained, and the book flounders under a string of digressions. This is unfortunate, because I think Jensen has a real critique of the underlying power-structures lurking behind the cameras which is missing from books like David Brin's The Transparent Society.
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