Hello all,
In trying to keep track of the contours of this conversation; I seem to find it
somehow removed from current political realities; as if the questions posed in
this discussion, while clearly relevant to the world we live in, can be
resolved in what seems to be a political vacuum.
Hello,
I’m coming at this discussion from another direction, sorry about that…
The problem with Facebook (for me anyway) is not its social media functions in
so far as IT ONLY works as a virtual bulletin board, town crier or even as
vehicle for sending messages. These aspects were part of the
Greetings,
It is encouraging to see Wendy Brown’s name appearing in this discussion and so
I will add a bit more of her insightfulness:
"the institutions as well as the political culture comprising liberal
democracy are passing into history, the left is faced both with the project of
mourning
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/24/google-alphabet-sidewalk-labs-toronto
google wants to run cities without being elected. don't let it
With this district [in Toronto], Alphabet will have its own “urban living
laboratory” where it can experiment with new smart systems and
Hello,
Collective responses to digital neofeudalism
http://www.eurozine.com/collective-responses-to-digital-neofeudalism/
How has the digital dream of the 1990s – equality, freedom of
expression and accessibility for everyone – turned into the constantly
surveilled dystopia that
No more mediation by political parties, established or not, seems to
be one of the new principles behind recent mobilisations. Is this the
right way to approach political and social struggles today? How can we
understand this?
Excerpted from Illan Rua Wall:
??? People come out and refuse
