How Digital Screen Use Alienates Human Societies: A treatise on social magic and its decadence (Classical and Contemporary Social Theory)

Halldorsson’s How Digital Screen Use Alienates Human Societies examines recent processes of technological rationalism, which were intensified by the Covid-pandemic, and explores how they alienate human societies in the name of progress.Challenging the prevailing assumptions of such ‘progress’, the book argues that these processes undermine the essential ‘social magic’ - the everyday human sociality that builds communities - which results in societal fragmentation, marked by alienation in the form of social isolation, consumption, polarisation, fear, and conflict. The paradox of how increased connectivity through digital networks, can lead to lack of human connection is the critical question this book pursues.It explores how intense processes of technological rationalisation has undermined human sociality and alienated the world by replacing human-to-human relationships with human-to-machine interactions.The author argues that communication with/through screen machines is incapable of r