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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
More fundamentally, and as any good Marxist will tell you, crises are not aberrations but are intrinsic to capitalism—or, to put it in the more contemporary jargon of Silicon Valley techies, crises are a feature and not a bug.
Astra Taylor • Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions
fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
whether someone is part of the people or not? Easy. If they support the leader, they are part of the people. This, according to the German political philosopher Jan-Werner Müller, is the defining feature of populism. What turns someone into a populist is claiming that they alone represent the people and that anyone who disagrees with them—whether
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Hegel/Zizek/Marx
Rocío • 1 card
An influential minority in the tech industry not only believes that new technologies pose a threat to our ordered world of nation-states; this group actively welcomes its demise. These critics believe that the state is mostly in the way. They argue it’s best jettisoned, already so troubled it is beyond rescue. I fundamentally disagree; such an
... See moreMustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Notes from Underground - Stephen Duncombe
Aria • 5 cards