Social Capital: Fear and Loathing in the Shadow of Ireland's Tech Boom Black & Asian studies “Stagger Lee”

“Stagger Lee”

restores life from death

James Newton Howard

drawing us into the depths of the psyche

flowers and finery - as well as the more visceral new practice of embalming

Social Capital: Fear and Loathing in the Shadow of Ireland's Tech Boom Black & Asian studies “Stagger Lee”At the start of the millennium, the Tech giants landed on Irelands shores. Dublin, once one of Europes poorest cities, became a beacon of Silicon Valleys promise of progress and power. As the face of the capital was remade in the image of Big Tech, Irish society embraced technology like no other. Romantic Ireland was dead and gone: social media was here to stay. In this provocative account, Aoife Barry explores the human cost of Irelands Faustian pact