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This chapter explores the visceral and performative dimensions of activist networking through a comparative ethnographic analysis of anti-corporate globalization mobilizations in Prague and Barcelona.
Jeffrey S. Juris • Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization (Experimental Futures)
According to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal t... See more
This dialectic is muddy from the get-go, of course. It’s a version of the more familiar hipster trap: over time, the marginal labor of the bohemian experimentalist and taste-maker is swallowed up by the smug cartoon of the in-the-know consumer clone. But the near inevitability of this process also suggests that the first hipster was already part of... See more
Erik Davis • The Weird and the Banal
the web, of course) a study conducted by some very clever researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.