{"id":6683,"date":"2025-10-09T14:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:54:38","slug":"book-review-revolutionary-algorithms-a-tiktok-manifesto-by-torey-akers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/book-review-revolutionary-algorithms-a-tiktok-manifesto-by-torey-akers\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Revolutionary Algorithms: A Tiktok Manifesto by Torey Akers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px&#8221; next_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>by Luise Noe<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0|0px|32.1719px|0px|false|false&#8221; prev_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243;][et_pb_row custom_padding=&#8221;15px|0px|16.0859px|0px|false|false&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.48&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5870\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 310px\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6685\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/10\/toreyakers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/10\/toreyakers.png 326w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/10\/toreyakers-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/10\/toreyakers-104x150.png 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On the surface, Torey Akers\u2019 <em>Revolutionary Algorithms: A TikTok Manifesto <\/em>(Grand Central, 2025) explores the counter-hegemonic potential of TikTok and the (fabricated) political outrage against the app on the eve of its ban, which ultimately never was. The anticlimactic eventization and political instrumentalization into which that \u201cban\u201d ultimately dissolved after the book\u2019s publication\u2014a looming threat continually put off by 75 day increments; an alleged deal being made days before the publication of this review\u2014does not take away, but adds to the appeal of Akers\u2019 ideas. That is because underneath the surface, <em>Revolutionary Algorithms<\/em> is foremost a negotiation between grief and anger as affects of the 21st century. What one would expect from a book as Akers\u2019, she already delivers: Well-researched examinations of US-China relations, the history of censorship before and on the internet, the tech-state-hanky-pankies within the military-industrial complex, COVID-19 psychologies, and questions of constructed moralities. But beyond that, Akers\u2019 recent loss of both parents always shines through as the emotional ethos of the book. Loss becomes the governing image, not just in the anticipated loss of the app, but in the conception of technology as a trace human absence. According to Akers, our technology is haunted\u2014by us.<\/p>\n<p>Hauntings tend to point to spirits with unfinished business in the material realm. And so, our material world, genocidal and pandemic-ridden, is the backdrop for Akers&#8217; argument. By exploring capitalism&#8217;s entanglement in contemporary misery, she reveals TikTok to be a mere scapegoat. This, however, does not result in any kind of blind techno-optimism. Rather, TikTok is a pharmakon, or as Akers describes it at the end of her introduction, neither \u201ccrypto-socialist totem nor portal to the promised land but instead [&#8230;] a self-playing piano trembling with need for human music\u201d (5). TikTok is not just a dance, hate speech, and make-up tutorial scroll of consciousness. There is actually a chance to unleash a revolutionary potential, Aker argues, while letting other activists\u2019 voices affirm and question that throughout the book. To do so, humans need to grapple with their\u2026 well, human-ness aka mortality. Importantly, Akers does not ask to simply make peace with death. Rather, her thought requires us to <em>feel <\/em>it. In her more critical engagement with the technology that brought us TikTok she wonders, \u201cif people invented God, and the internet in his image, to snuff grief&#8217;s hungry wick\u201d (85). Akers\u2019 humanism, which grounds her argument, is equally the embrace of individual grief and a directed anger at the excess of death in the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>Revolutionary Algorithms <\/em>plays with the fusion of \u201chigh\u201d and \u201clow\u201d culture\u2014\u201cif Byung-Chul Han saw a Skibidi Toilet Camerahead\u201d would he rejoice or cry? (67)\u2014to conclusively capture the contemporary condition in writing: Akers style is vulnerable <em>and<\/em> polemic,\u00a0 serious <em>and <\/em>funny, passionate <em>and <\/em>ironic. Some argument summaries may feel hasty as a result, for example, aligning Walter Benjamin&#8217;s take on motion pictures with Socrates&#8217; put down of the written word (48). But it makes the book into a captivating read not just for those who would want to agree with its central thesis. Even if Akers does not persuade you, her prose will make the read so worth it either way. This review is testament of it: this reviewer has no TikTok account and never had one. Regularly suspected to be a secret luddite, none of my personal disagreements with any of Akers\u2019 points took away from my enjoyment of the book. Her great writing, her tone, imagery, and register over and over lets the reading experience resonate like a late night bar argument I would love to have with my smartest friends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6686\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/10\/ToreyAkers-Book-Cover.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/10\/ToreyAkers-Book-Cover.png 212w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/10\/ToreyAkers-Book-Cover-106x150.png 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/torey-akers\/revolutionary-algorithms\/9781538773734\/?lens=grand-central-publishing\">Purchase here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bios:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Torey Akers<\/strong> is an artist and writer living in Brooklyn. She holds MFAs from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Hunter College.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luise No\u00e9<\/strong> is the creative non-fiction editor at <em>Cream City Review<\/em>. 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