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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Robert Putnam showed in his book Bowling Alone
subpixel.space • Life After Lifestyle
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 not just particular gadgets and platforms causing dislocation. It’s a deep-rooted ideology, often bipartisan, that prioritizes private and corporate solutions to public problems over cooperative ones, over-values elite technical experts over popular participation, and elevates hyper-individualistic ideals over communal ones.
Pete Davis • A New American Awakening
Inexpensive and user-friendly digital tools for manipulating text, images and sounds — think Photoshop or GarageBand — have dramatically broadened access to the means of cultural production and blurred the lines between amateurs and professionals. But the question is not just how many people engage in cultural production — it’s how people engage.&
... See moreROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
In another timeline, Yarvin might have remained an obscure and ineffectual internet crank, a digital de Maistre. Instead, he has become one of America’s most influential illiberal thinkers, an engineer of the intellectual source code for the second Trump Administration. “Yarvin has pushed the Overton window,” Nikhil Pal Singh, a history professor a... See more