Freethinking
Protecting Freedom of Thought Amidst the New Battle for the Mind
$69.75
- Hardcover
416 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2024
Summary
Big Brother is watching us…and mind control is, in a real sense, a reality. What are we going to do about it?
When one of his articles goes viral, Simon McCarthy-Jones finds himself, at all hours of the day and night, having the thought ‘check Facebook’. But was it really his thought? How often do you think of something, only for your computer spookily to feed you just the right ad. Or Google a ‘unique’ question, only for autocomplete to get there well ahead. In The Battle for Thought…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780861544578 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0861544579 |
| Author: | Simon McCarthy-Jones |
| Publisher: | Oneworld Publications |
| Imprint: | Oneworld Publications |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 516g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 135mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
‘Excellent and beyond timely… [McCarthy-Jones] has identified a great challenge for our time - clarifying and asserting this right - and issued a clarion call to meet it.’ —A. C. Grayling
‘Impressive… wide-ranging… McCarthy-Jones offers a utopian vision of a “deep enlightenment” in which society is restructured, from its streets to its libraries, to improve conditions for free thought.’ —Literary Review
Simon McCarthy-Jones
Simon McCarthy-Jones is an Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology at Trinity College Dublin. An internationally recognised expert on the experience of hallucinations, he also writes on and researches a range of psychological phenomena and is the author of Spite. He has written extensively for the popular press, with articles published in the New Statesman, New Scientist, Newsweek, the Huffington Post, the Daily Mail, the Independent and the Irish Times. His articles on ‘The Conversation’ website have received over a million views to date.
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