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Rogers Brubaker
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Successful platforms do not just discover what consumers want — they produce the consumers and the forms of consumer desire that they need.
ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
“Commerce and culture are locked in an ever-tighter embrace.”
Rogers Brubaker • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
A democratic cultural politics would be developmentalist — oriented to learning, growth and discovery — rather than presentist.
ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
Truly democratizing cultural creativity, one might argue, would promote the development of skills and capacities rather than minimize the need for them.
ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
Digital hyperconnectivity — the condition in which nearly everyone and everything is connected to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time — has colonized the self, recast social interactions, reorganized the public sphere, revolutionized economic life and converted the whole of human culture into an unending stream of digital con
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identitarian demand—