The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age

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Synopsis
From the award-winning author of The Illuminations, a significant and timely work of non-fiction by one of the most important writers of his generation.Julian Assange, a man who, five years ago, seemed to herald a new, enlightened form of democracy -- until, that is, the apparent heroism of WikiLeaks became compromised by his hubris and paranoia. Satoshi Nakamoto, another man who radically reshaped the business of information and secrecy on a global scale. He is known as the elusive inventor of Bitcoin, but who is the real Satoshi -- a lone wolf or a collective of individuals with the talent to reimagine the financial wheel? And Ronald Pinn, a man who does not exist at all, except in the furthest, darkest reaches of O'Hagan's internet use. Driven by an interest in the ease with which it is possible to create an identity in an online world, O'Hagan journeys into the dark web where everything -- sex, drugs, guns -- is for sale.The Secret Life is about these elusive individuals, written in three individual yet deeply connected essays. It is a dazzling book about the porousness between genius and madness, between fact and fiction. It is about nothing less than modern personality in the digital age.
Copyright:
2017

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780771072529
Related ISBNs:
9780771072512
Publisher:
McClelland & Stewart
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Copyrighted By:
Andrew O'Hagan
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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