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The revolt of the public, as I envision the thing, is a technology-driven churning of new people and classes, a proliferation and confusion of message and noise, utopian hopes and nihilistic rage, globalization and disintegration, taking place in the unbearable personal proximity of the web and at a fatal distance from political power. Every struct
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Print created individualism and nationalism in the sixteenth century.
Marshall McLuhan • Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon - Understanding Media_ the Extensions of Man_ Critical Edition-Gingko Press
What Mollier reveals in the second half of the first millennium is a feverish traffic between the Daoists and the Buddhists of mutual appropriations, falsifications, denials, excisions of telltale signs or ‘cut and paste’, and reformatting in the competitive environment of court and society. Thus, an apocryphal sutra has the Buddha preach that life
... See morePrasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
In significant part because our notions of religion in Asia derive from the radical categories of the Abrahamic faiths, we see why the idea of secularization seems to do so little for our understanding of modern China even though the question of religion is an explosive one. A comparative excursus tracking the fate of confessionalized religion in m
... See morePrasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Rethinking Speech Rights in the Era of Corporate Information Control | TechPolicy.Press
David McNeilltechpolicy.press
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