shoot it in my veins

The comments are edited reviews from Amazon that were written by actual people for the following books: Fahrenheit 451, Don Quixote, Ulysess, Lolita, Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, 1984, War and Peace, In Search of Lost Time, Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary.

As you may have guessed by now, this is a webpage representing very emotional, but fake book reviews.

I decided to explore the topic of internet anger and emotional outbursts through design research. In a book I collected articles and projects explaining the phenomenon of internet hate, what causes it, how do we recognize its form and how its constant accessibility influences us, the users, humans.

This website is a complement to my printed object and is supposed to create the experience of the phenomena itself.

[1] Jonathan Haidt and Tobias Rose-Stockwell (2019). The Dark Psychology of Social Networks. The Atlantic, 2019.

[2] William J. Brady et. al. (2017). Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks. PNAS Early Edition, 23. 5. 2017.

[3] Michael Seemann (2017). Digital Tribalism and Fake News. What is Different?, 2018. p 52-62. Berlin: Sternberg press.

[4] Kathryn Jezer-Morton (2017). Babyboomers love Facebook, so let them have it. The Outline, 11. 12. 2017.

[5] Hito Steyerl (2013). In Defense of the Poor Image. In The Wretched of the Screen, 2013. p 31-45. Berlin: Sternberg press.

[6] Susan Hawthorne (2018). Bibliodiversity: The Politics of Knowledge and the Distribution of Ideas. In Distributed, David Blamey and Brad Haylock (eds.), p 169-184. London: Open Editions.

[7] Josie Thaddeus-Johns (2019). Hell is Other Internet People. The Baffler, 17. 7. 2019.

[8] Justin Clemens (2018). The Paradox of Dissemination. In Distributed, David Blamey and Brad Haylock (eds.), 226-238. London: Open Editions.

[9] Ted Burmila (2018). Twilight of the Racist Uncles. The Baffler, 30. 10. 2018.

[10] Zoe Williams (2018). Why are we living in an age of anger – is it because of the 50-year rage cycle? The Guardian, 16. 5. 2018.

[11] Lenart J. Kučić (2015). Instructions for using news or how to protect ourselves against media hysteria. Pod črto, 15. 12. 2015.