Sad by Design Art and Music its power and its limits

its power and its limits — if not its direction

the physical aspects of the cultural revolution became ever more central as they were considered mandatory for effective defense

It is a resource for helping us understand ourselves

“Forget the clichés—straight edge isn’t just about buff white dudes

when Florida farmworkers encourage people not to buy their tomatos because the farm owners won't pay them for their hard work--this is called a boycott

Sad by Design Art and Music its power and its limitsby Geert Lovink Pluto Press 6 15 2019, paperback SKU: 9780745339344 Melancholy has always been with us. Nowadays, though, it's a design problem its highs and lows coded into the social media platforms on which we spend so much of our lives. We click, we scroll; we swipe, we like. And after it all, we wonder where the time went, and what, other than a flat and empty feeling, we got for it. Sad by Design offers a critical analysis of our social media