<p><b>'Unsettling, illuminating, and perversely fun - by a writer of extraordinary style and intellectual range'</b><br> <b>Mark O'Connell, author of <i>To Be A Machine</i></b><br><b>'Excellent ... I felt both seen and like I could see more after reading' Amy Liptrot, author of <i>The Outrun</i></b><br><b>'Spectacular ... lion-hearted in its honesty, and insightful to the point of brilliance' - Lisa McInerney, author of <i>The Glorious Heresies</i></b><br><br>We all live online now: the line between the internet and IRL has become porous to the point of being meaningless.<br><br> Roisin Kiberd knows this better than anyone. She has worked for tech startups and as the online voice of a cheese brand; she's witnessed the bloated excesses of tech conferences and explored the strangest communities on the web. She has traced the ripples these hidden worlds have sent through our culture and politics, and experienced the disorienting effects on her own life.<br><br> In these interlinked essays, she illuminates the subject with fierce clarity, revealing the ways we are more connected than ever before, and the disconnect this breeds. From the lure of the endless scroll, to the glamour of self-optimisation; from the cult of Energy Drinks to the nostalgic world of Vaporwave music; and from silicon town centres to dating tech bros, Kiberd explores the strange worlds, habits and people that have grown with the internet. She asks what we have gained, what we have lost, and what we have given willingly away in exchange for this connected life.</p>
Review
Roisin Kiberd is a Dante of the internet, leading us through the infernal circles of our online damnation. <i>The Disconnect</i> is a brilliant debut collection - unsettling, illuminating, and perversely fun - by a writer of extraordinary style and intellectual range. -- Mark O'Connell, author ? To Be A Machine
Excellent: full of sharp analysis of life online, insomnia, dating apps and with a grand unified theory of Monster Energy drinks ... I felt both seen and like I could see more after reading this collection. -- Amy Liptrot, author ? The Outrun
<i>Roisin Kiberd has found the words to capture what it feels like to live, as they say online, 'in the bad timeline.' ... The joy lies in Kiberd's lucid prose, in the possibilities she presents, in her clarity of thought. </i> -- Nicole Flattery, author of 'Show Them a Good Time'
Both a warning about our lives in the worst of all possible worlds and the silent scream of every child birthed in the Internet's fractured womb. A long overdue message delivered by a writer with a first-rate intellect and curiosity who's unafraid to turn heat-vision on the self and, thus, all selves. -- Jarrett Kobek, author of 'I Hate the Internet'
Spectacular. A book that takes on, makes sense of, and triumphs over that shapeless techno-dread with which we're now so sickeningly familiar. It's lion-hearted in its honesty, and insightful to the point of brilliance. All I'd hoped for and exactly what I needed. -- Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies
As deep as it is wide-ranging, <i>The Disconnect</i> is a smart, timely, and beautifully intimate investigation into how the internet is turning us all inside-out. -- Ian Maleney, author ? Minor Monuments
One of our brightest young writers. -- Martin Doyle ? Irish Times
It's sharp, sad and funny ... If you, like me, have ever had to cut yourself off from an endless scroll and then felt the existential weight of being at once plugged into and removed from the rest of the world, then this book is for you. -- Vicky Spratt ? Refinery 29
Gripping and fascinating -- Andrew Marr, Start the Week, BBC Radio 4
I can't wait for Roisin Kiberd's The Disconnect - the sharpest writer with the most glorious and zippy mind. -- John Patrick McHugh, author of Pure Gold
Book Description
A brilliant new voice on tech and life: this debut essay collection announces a startling talent
About the Author
Roisin Kiberd's essays have been published in the <i>Dublin Review</i>, <i>Stinging Fly</i> and in the upcoming anthology <i>Seizing the Memes of Production</i>. She has written features on technology and culture for publications including the <i>Guardian</i>, the <i>Outline</i>, <i>Vice</i> <i>UK</i> and <i>Motherboard</i>, where she wrote a column about internet subcultures. She lives in Dublin.
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