DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism | Edge.org

Sotonye Jack: The ‘institution’ of the internet has arisen at the same time that legacy sense-making institutions have struggled with errors and botched predictions... For the first time in history, the power to pursue truth and make up your own mind is backed by the decentralized sum of all human knowledge, which changes the game of expertise from... See more

If the 20th century represented the victory of individualism against the commune, it is hard not to notice the ways that in the conquest of China, the domination of conspiracy groups in politics, the rise of DAOs and worker-collectives, and the acceptance of open-source even among the most gated corporations, the internet is slowly but surely shift... See more

When judgment, or narrative come up in the context of digital networks, the conversation often goes one of two directions. The first is to identify the lack of common context on social media, nothing the confusion and contention that emerges from this kind of discourse. The second is to note that knowledge communities tend to cloister themselves on... See more