Re: Notes on the counter-revolution 2

2017-03-25 Thread Keith Hart
Something happened to the link in transit. This to the paper: https://www.academia.edu/31962867/Notes_on_the_counter-revolution # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of

Phillips/Beyer/Coleman: "false assumption that alt-right 'trolling'

2017-03-25 Thread Florian Cramer
This collectively authored piece by Whitney Phillips, Jessica Beyer and Gabriella Coleman is worth reading and, perhaps, debating: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/trolling-scholars-debunk-the-idea-that-the-alt-rights-trolls-have-magic-powers The authors make important poin

Notes on the counter-revolution 2

2017-03-25 Thread Keith Hart
I came across these anecdotal scribbles recently. They were written in the context of September 11th, the War on Terror and the invasion of Iraq which began while I was teaching in the US. I was led by various encounters and developments to reflect on whether American society was des