Digital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time. The Silicon Valley dream of universal
connection - the dream of connecting everyone and everything to everyone and everything else
everywhere and all the time - is rapidly becoming a reality. In this wide-ranging and sharply
argued book Rogers Brubaker develops an original interpretive account of the pervasive and
unsettling changes brought about by hyperconnectivity. He traces transformations of the self
social relations culture economics and politics giving special attention to underexplored
themes of abundance miniaturization convenience quantification and discipline. He shows how
hyperconnectivity prepared us for the pandemic and how the pandemic in turn has prepared us
for an even more fully digitally mediated future. Throughout Brubaker underscores the
ambivalence of digital hyperconnectivity which opens up many new and exciting possibilities
yet at the same time threatens human freedom and flourishing. Hyperconnectivity and Its
Discontents will be essential reading for everyone interested in the constellation of
socio-technical forces that are profoundly remaking our world.
