Bücher von Loretta Napoleoni

"At the dawn of the digital revolution, the internet was going to be the great equalizer, a global democratic force. Instead, with the money printed electronically to bail out banks, Wall Street ended up funding a new breed of serial capitalists, the Techtitans, who embraced rapid, transformational change while stripping their workers of rights and enriching themselves beyond anybody's wildest imagination; and the Space Barons, who mine new frontiers for precious resources. Then came the gig-economy, another supposed digital equalizer, where everybody was their own boss, but it was just another illusion. Tech pioneers like Google, Facebook, Apple, Uber, and Microsoft never had any intention of spreading democracy. Those who control and own the technology are the absolute masters. As artificial intelligence enters the labor market, companies like Uber are able to cut labor costs to the barest of minimums, by squeezing workers' privileges and rights. In Techno-Capitalism, Napoleoni describes these phenomena as the genesis of a new paradigm, born in a period of extraordinary change in which the acceleration of transformational change has caused a dizzying, anxiety-induced paralysis from the FTX collapse to AI, private space companies to the war in Ukraine, from inflation to the dirty environmental truth of EV car batteries. Technological transformation is occurring at a speed that is existentially unbearable for most of us. We must fight for our common good to address today's real challenges of global warming and militarism and the soulessness of capitalist endeavor. Napoleoni shows us how"--

Warum Stricken uns stark und glücklich machtLoretta Napoleoni beschwört das Stricken als wertvolles Band zwischen Menschen: So wie sie selbst das Stricken als Kind von ihrer Großmutter gelernt und dabei viel von ihr über das Leben und die Welt erfahren hat, hat Napoleoni es an ihre Patentochter weitergegeben. In ihrem sehr persönlichen Buch beschreibt sie nicht nur, wie Stricken Menschen und Generationen einander näher bringt, sondern auch wie es der Seele Trost spendet und mitunter sogar therapeutische Wirkung entfaltet. Sie erzählt Geschichte und Geschichten, in denen das Stricken eine Rolle spielt, und schildert vielfältige kulturelle Traditionen, die sich mit dem Stricken verbinden. Durchgehend farbig illustriert und um 10 originelle Strickanleitungen ergänzt, ist Napoleonis Liebeserklärung an das Stricken das ideale Geschenk für alle, die leidenschaftlich gerne zu Nadeln und Wolle greifen.