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Trump Voters Want a Revolution. It’s Time for Progressives to Offer Their Own
George Monbiottheguardian.comWhat makes [breach] ... so important, and so terrifying to technocrats, is that it represents a re-embodiment of accountability.
Best Served Cold: Luigi Mangione and The Age of Breach: Technofeudalism, accountability porn and the new counterculture Alexander Beiner 12.14.2024
Best Served Cold: Luigi Mangione and The Age of Breach: Technofeudalism, accountability porn and the new counterculture Alexander Beiner 12.14.2024
2024 A+ Zettels
This book will add one more accusation to the pile: the design of online social spaces has contributed to the atrophy of everyday democratic skills. The diagnosis also bears remedies. More than other explanations of democratic erosion, this account suggests that the future of democracy can begin at the level of ordinary community, wherever we find
... See moreNathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Understanding Authoritarianism
belonging.berkeley.edun Hannah Black’s essay for Artforum, “Go Outside,” she describes the possibilities illuminated by 2020’s riots, emphasizing a return to social life and public space. A riot, she writes, is “just something that can happen when a lot of people are outside in the same place.” She continues: “By providing new uses for public space—by uprooting street... See more
Protean Magazine • There Are Trees in the Future, Or, a Case for Staying
Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow.
Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
The theater’s rich intellectual inheritance serves as a buffer to society’s recrudescent stupidity. Upholding this legacy seems a more vital role for a critic than operating as a tour guide of commercial entertainments. The survival of our democracy depends on the recovery of our critical thinking skills.
In the past, when I’ve made the case for... See more
In the past, when I’ve made the case for... See more
Charles McNulty • In defense of criticism: A theater critic asks what good does it do in an upside-down world
The Privatization Of Everything | how America sold itself out
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