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Either I'm dumb and a lot is going overhead, or this book is nothing but a compendium of trivial observations expressed in a convoluted style, which got a lot of hype because no one has written the Undetstanding Media of social media yet.

Full of doubletalk like "the tractability of our inherited opacities".

These guys are constantly blowing each other in the blurbs...Justin "Ruiu" EH Smith, who wrote a 2star timewaster of a tome called " the internet is not what you think it is", blurbs this as "compelling elegant prose". Meanwhile Barbakay is writing epilepsy inducing sentences such as "...the defense of free speech has itself often enough taken the form..."

Guy has an amazing knack for making the obvious tortuous and restating banalities in a complex fashion.

I'm wondering, "Is this guy a crap writer or is it my fault that I can't read more than 5 pages of this tome at a sitting"...then I came to this: "... frequently used as a cudgel with which to wholesale impugn the merits of their findings." Image a whole tome of this.