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the passivity of the majority is what allows the powerful to rule.
Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
exploring the personal and political economy of scrounging as a means of survival.
Jeff Ferrell • Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
If groups do not develop intentional “democratic structuring,” Freeman argued, informal power structures will form, usually reinforcing existing hierarchies and privilege.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
For Scott, to “see like a state” means to accept the order of things and to internalize them; it means that we begin to deploy and think with the logic of the superiority of orderliness and that we erase and indeed sacrifice other, more local practices of knowledge, practices moreover that may be less efficient, may yield less marketable results, b
... See moreJack Halberstam • The Queer Art of Failure (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Since all social orders and hierarchies are imagined, they are all fragile, and the larger the society, the more fragile it is.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
The gaze of the state intensifies—but the state may find, to its surprise, that its subjects command many of the same capabilities, and are gazing right back upon it.
Adam Greenfield • Radical Technologies
the capture of time, about disempowerment and depersonalized connectedness.