Quoting from the dust cover on this book by Lee Siegal…

“Lee Siegel argues that our ever-deepening immersion in life online doesn’t just reshape the ordinary rhythms of our days; it also reshapes our minds and culture in ways with which we haven’t yet reckoned. The Web and its cultural correlatives and by-products - such as the dominance of reality television and the rise of ‘bourgeois bohemian’ - have turned privacy in to performance, play in to commerce, and confused ’self-expression’ with art. And even as technology gurus ply their trade using the language of freedom and democracy, we cede more and more control of our freedom and individuality to the needs of the machine - that confluence of business and technology whose boundaries now stretch to encompass almost all human activity.

Siegel’s argument isn’t a Luddite intervention against the Internet itself but, rather, an appeal for us to contend with how it is transforming us all. Full of original insights, and bouyed by sharp wit, Against the Machine will force you to see our culture - for better or worse - in an entirely new way.”

Read more on this interesting book from reviews from The New York Times, Salon.com and Amazon.com