Berry's timely book engages with a broad range of topics that define our digital culture. It guides us to the political materiality of software culture with excellent insights. Importantly, this book updates critical theory for the digital age.

Dr Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art, author of What is Media Archaeology? (2012)

In this lucid, learned and highly original book Berry confronts the nature of digital knowledge in society through the re-invigorated lens of Critical Theory asking how we can regain control of the knowledge structures embedded in the digital technologies that we increasingly rely upon in daily life.

Michael Bull, author of Sound Moves: iPod Culture and Urban Experience

<i>Critical Theory and the Digital </i>offers an important new addition to critical theory that explores questions raised by the digital in light of the work of the Frankfurt school. Providing an accessible and critical appraisal of the digital world we live in today, the book argues that critical praxis must today be rethought in light of digital technologies and the affordances that are made available to state, corporate and civil society actors. The book offers both a theoretical and a political contribution: the former through its exploration of how the digital can be read, written, and hacked critically; the latter through its discussion of how the digital can be transformed by political action and the organisation of digital resistance.

Christian De Cock, University of Essex, UK

Unlike many media studies scholars who refer to the Frankfurt School’s critique of the cultural industries only to show its inapplicability to the open source world of the digital age, David Berry accomplishes the remarkable feat of re-instating that critique for the new brave world that is afforded by digital technology. Easily moving between Heidegger, Adorno and Stiegler, Berry mobilizes a formidable array of theoretical resources in aid of what he calls ‘iteracy’, an emerging competence in tracking the contexts in which ‘being digital’ is continually formed and re-formed. The result is a milestone in both critical theory and the digital humanities.

Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK

Bringing dialectical critique to digital culture, David Berry replenishes the legacy of the Frankfurt School in order to devise strategies to live within and against the real-time streams of computational capitalism. Fusing critical theory with the political economy of social media (think Facebook and Twitter), the surveillance paranoia of NSA, the wild party of Hacklabs, the secret autonomy of cryptography, and the accelerated economy of algorithmic trading, Berry registers the contours of the black box that defines digital labour and life.

Ned Rossiter, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia