Book launch on April 5: Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter Thursday 5 April 2018, 19:00 – 21:00 117 Boardroom, Regent Street Campus Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-demagogue-authoritarian-capitalism-in... WIAS, CAMRI and Pluto Press are pleased to invite you to the book launch of “Digital Demagogue” by Christian Fuchs. Due to adverse weather conditions, the original event on 1 March 2018 was cancelled and has now been rescheduled to Thursday 5 April 2018. "Digital Demagogue" analyses the emergence of authoritarian capitalism and how authoritarian ideology operates on social media. It contributes to the critical analysis of the political economy of Donald Trump and the critique of the political economy of authoritarian communication. -- Book (published): https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745337968/digital-demagogue/ German translation (forthcoming): http://www.vsa-verlag.de/nc/buecher/detail/artikel/digitale-demagogie/ Blog post (brief book intro) https://economicsociology.org/2018/02/15/social-media-authoritarian-capitali... Free ebook "Nationalism 2.0" accompanying "Digital Demagogue": https://www.plutobooks.com/9781786802996/nationalism-2-0/ Why There Are Certain Parallels Between Joachim C. Fest’s Hitler-Biography and Michael Wolff’s Trump-Book https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1007