Publisher: Zero Books
Date published: 2019
At a time when historical literacy is crucial, and old prejudices are percolating into the present, Big Techs predictive algorithms are locking us into nostalgic feedback loops. The result is a precarious society with its gaze fixed on the good old days. The Circle of the Snake is at once a reckoning with the myth of digital utopia and an incisive analysis of nostalgia as a weapon to spread fascism.