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'Shut up Alexa', a critical essay by German university professor Johannes Bröckesr, is presented this Thursday, January 30, at 8:00 p.m., at the Soldadito de Plomo cafeteria, run by Jorgen Cabezas Montaña, editor of the book in Spain.
This activity is part of the Coffee with Science and Thought program of the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena
The book, published in Spanish by the Valencian publisher Off Road, has a great ambition: to encourage the reader to consume without using the large global Amazon distributor.
WARNING: THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR VISION ABOUT AMAZON
"Almost everyone buys from Amazon, it's so comfortable ... While the city centers are unfolding, traffic soars and paper containers overflow. In addition, manufacturers of quality products are exploited economically, they are exploited copy (Amazon produces cheaper) and thus the concentration does not stop growing in every way. And what is worse: Alexa listens to everything in homes around the world, even our most intimate information "thus reads the text of the off-road publishing house on "Shut up Alexa".
The convenience of buying from our sofa, has a very high cost for the outside and also for our inner world.
In the not so distant past, compulsive buying could be avoided simply without leaving home or bypassing certain commercial areas.
What happens now when it is not the super or the fashion store, but the global hypermarket, the universe of potentially tempting objects, who settles in the living room of the house and intends to stay?
Questions you can ask yourself after reading this book, which also lists some important figures.
Amazon owner Jeff Bezos is one of the richest people in the world.
Only 58 countries have a GDP higher than Bezos' private fortune.
The Amazon Prime service has 100 million customers, twice as many inhabitants as Spain, for example.
The book has been edited by Out of Route, an editorial that aims to give voice to the forgotten, silenced and all those texts that remain outside the stipulated canons.
It is a space in which literature, history, social journalism and activism are mixed, conceived with the conviction that through culture and books a change can be achieved to transform society into a more just and human reality .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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