The Secret Life: Three True Stories Of The Digital Age
by Andrew O'Hagan /
2017 / English / EPUB
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The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for
identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand
IRL―“in real life”―now seems naïve. We no longer question the
reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the
digital age.
The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for
identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand
IRL―“in real life”―now seems naïve. We no longer question the
reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the
digital age.
In
InThe Secret Life: Three True Stories
The Secret Life: Three True Stories, the essayist and
novelist Andrew O’Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous
border between cyberspace and IRL. “Ghosting” introduces us to
the beguiling and divisive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange,
whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite with
unforeseen―and unforgettable―consequences. “The Invention of
Ronnie Pinn” finds the author using the actual identity of a
deceased young man to construct an entirely new one in
cyberspace, leading him on a journey deep into the Web’s darkest
realms. And “The Satoshi Affair” chronicles the strange case of
Craig Wright, the Australian Web developer who may or may not be
the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto―and who may
or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth.
, the essayist and
novelist Andrew O’Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous
border between cyberspace and IRL. “Ghosting” introduces us to
the beguiling and divisive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange,
whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite with
unforeseen―and unforgettable―consequences. “The Invention of
Ronnie Pinn” finds the author using the actual identity of a
deceased young man to construct an entirely new one in
cyberspace, leading him on a journey deep into the Web’s darkest
realms. And “The Satoshi Affair” chronicles the strange case of
Craig Wright, the Australian Web developer who may or may not be
the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto―and who may
or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth.
O’Hagan’s searching pieces take us to the weirder fringes of life
in a digital world while also casting light on our shared
predicaments. What does it mean when your very sense of self
becomes, to borrow a term from the tech world, “disrupted”?
Perhaps it takes a novelist, an inventor of selves, armed with
the tools of a trenchant reporter, to find an answer.
O’Hagan’s searching pieces take us to the weirder fringes of life
in a digital world while also casting light on our shared
predicaments. What does it mean when your very sense of self
becomes, to borrow a term from the tech world, “disrupted”?
Perhaps it takes a novelist, an inventor of selves, armed with
the tools of a trenchant reporter, to find an answer.