Sublime

A story can thereby serve like a central connector, with an unlimited number of outlets into which an unlimited number of people can plug. For example, the 1.4 billion members of the Catholic Church are connected by the Bible and other key Christian stories; the 1.4 billion citizens of China are connected by the stories of communist ideology and Ch

The “network” is defined by people who use the product to interact with each other.

Nobody who grasps that for Mill the boundaries of the national culture are open so long as the voices of dissent remain individual and closed when that culture is threatened by collective dissension, can fail to hear him propounding the nationalist ideology of unisonance8 as Benedict Anderson describes it, a contemporaneous cultural cohesion connec

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Em conjunto com o neoliberalismo, está se estabelecendo um regime de informação que não é repressivo, mas sedutor. Ele assume uma forma inteligente [smart]. Ele não opera com mandamentos ou proibições. Não nos impõe o silêncio. Em vez disso, esse domínio inteligente exige constantemente que comuniquemos nossas opiniões, nossas necessidades e prefer

These are the scales of modern human networks, and it’s Dunbar’s number multiplied by millions. In these large-scale communities, standards and self-governance can’t be maintained by people simply running around and talking to each other. Instead, the builders of these networked products must create features that nudge the interactions in the right

is so anxious to show that nationalism masquerades under false pretences that he assimilates ‘invention’ to ‘fabrication’ and ‘falsity’, rather than to ‘imagining’ and ‘creation’. In this way he implies that ‘true’ communities exist which can be advantageously juxtaposed to nations. In fact, all communities larger than primordial villages of face-t