Simply remembering that corporations were invented should alone empower us to reinvent them to our liking
Douglas Rushkoff • Team Human
History can get stuck and can go into reverse. Powerful interests will do whatever they can to resist, divert, confuse or disrupt trends that they find threatening. Imagination is one of the weapons with which to confront them—imagination that is compelling, rigorous and thought through.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
the proliferation of media artifacts and the growing colonization of our experience by varieties of digital mediation have generated an imperative to self-consciously interpret.
L. M. Sacasas • The Hermeneutical Imperative - The Convivial Society
the News is Fake, Imagine History The collision of Leviathans has knocked something loose. Access to all that information from the Network has changed our perception of the present, and with it the perception of the past. The historical inevitability and (even more importantly) the desirability of the US establishment’s victory over all opponents i
... See moreBalaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Distortion of the Present “If the news is fake, imagine history.” This pithy tweet reverses Orwell, because he who is acknowledged to be faking the present can no longer distort the past.