Siegel pulls no punches ... Neither optimistic nor fatalist, aiming instead for a blunt account of how the information state has molded our shared perception of reality ... Philosophical and entirely grounded, this is a text that will surely be cited as technologies like AI become even more ubiquitous. Bruising in both tenor and style, The Information State will challenge and enlighten readers on every page.
The most important political book of the last several years ... The Information State does what few have been able to do in the last several years — it makes a dizzyingly complex subject, full of governmental agencies, media lackeys, and tech activists, into a streamlined narrative. This is a book that is going to explode.
Hit-or-miss ... Though clear-eyed about the dangers of state repression in the Information Age, Siegel relies too much on insinuation and analogy to make his case ... It's a mixed bag.
Ideologically colored ... Siegel’s narrative becomes ever more fervent as he denounces Joseph Biden, the intelligence community, Black Lives Matter (compared unfavorably to the patriots who stormed the Capitol), vaxxers, and other broad-side-of-the-barn targets ... A high-toned effort of appeal to the QAnon crowd.
