In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World

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Nate Anderson

In Emergency, Break Glass

What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World

Nate Anderson

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Norton
10 May 2022

Philosophy

Who has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or distracting myself from living? In Emergency, Break Glass adapts Friedrich Nietzsche's passionate quest for meaning into a world overwhelmed by ?content.?

Written long before the advent of smartphones, Nietzsche's aphoristic philosophy advocated a fierce mastery of attention, a strict information diet, and a powerful connection to the natural world. Drawing on Nietzsche's work, technology journalist Nate Anderson advocates for a life of goal-oriented, creative exertion as more meaningful than the ?frictionless? leisure often promised by our devices. He rejects the simplicity of contemporary prescriptions like reducing screen time in favor of looking deeply at what truly matters to us, then finding ways to make our technological tools serve this vision. With a light touch suffused by humor, Anderson uncovers the impact of this ?yes-saying? philosophy on his own life?and perhaps on yours.?

By: Nate Anderson
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 289g
ISBN: 9781324004790
ISBN 10: 1324004797
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 10 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nate Anderson is the deputy editor at Conde Nast's Ars Technica. He is the author of The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed, and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Reviews for In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World

"Anderson gives us the philosopher we need for the moment at hand, and it is a welcome gift.-- ""Kirkus Reviews"" Unconventional arguments (read less, forget more) and Anderson's facility in distilling the useful from Nietzsche's writings while tossing the ""bad, cruel or juvenile"" breathe some refreshing originality into the screen obsession discourse. This is a must-read for anyone overwhelmed by the Information Age.-- ""Publishers Weekly"" Nietzsche's warning to avoid the seductions of easy comforts remains fresh... [In Emergency, Break Glass is] accessible and lively.-- ""Boston Globe"""