About this episode
Jacob Siegel discusses his book on the transformation of government and society in the age of surveillance and censorship.
Jacob Siegel is a writer and editor at Tablet and author of The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control . A U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, he is also a co-host of the Manifesto! podcast. We discuss his book and what it means for the present and future of the West in the midst of a transformation from the form of representative government we have always known into a whole of society technopoly driven by state-orchestrated surveillance, censorship, and the algorithmic tuning of public opinion.
People in this episode
Host: Dan
Guest: Jacob Siegel
Topics covered
- politics
- surveillance
- censorship
- technology
- society
- public opinion
Keywords
- Jacob Siegel
- The Information State
- surveillance
- censorship
- technopoly
- public opinion
- politics
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Tablet
Books & works: The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control
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