By Marc Reichwein (Die Welt)
Intellectually stimulating critiques of capitalism are rare - that's why every new book by Joseph Vogl deserves our attention.
This professor at Humboldt University in Berlin has been lecturing financial markets for years.
In his latest essay, entitled “Kapital und Ressentiment.
Eine kurze Theorie der Gegenwart ”(CH Beck, 224 pages, 18 euros), Joseph Vogl draws parallels between digital financial centers and opinion platforms.
He sees the power of social media as problematic.
Much like the stock markets, social networks seem to handle information as signals of excitement whose value has little to do with the classic categories of consistency, truth, or knowledge.
Could this be the reason why there has never been so much pseudo-news, fake news and felt truths in circulation?
And what is the impact on
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