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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Vladimir Ulyanov,
China Miéville • October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
Do they matter to the apparent victory of neoliberal capitalism, or are they even perhaps symptomatic of its success?
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
performing work in the public imagination—easing our minds that the government is looking out for kids—but largely benefiting a range of corporate and institutional efforts to constrain the freedoms available online,
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
It’s the surprise part that Orwell couldn’t predict. He was looking in the wrong direction. Total surveillance. The privatisation of the private.
Jeanette Winterson • 12 Bytes
those working at our contemporary frontiers have yet to find a fully coherent political expression that generalises their own experiences into the promise of greater freedom for everyone, and so far these visions offer little to manual workers or care workers, whose bargaining power is so much less.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future (Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies)
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They were vital enough in their way. Not even the most heavily armed police state can exert brute force on all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives. There