My thoughts on the “affective contagion” of revolutionary events such as those in Tehran a year and a half ago, or those currently happening in Cairo, have always been somewhat undertheorized. Posthegemony‘s Jon Beasley-Murray points to an exhilarating piece written by his UBC colleague Gastón Gordillo on Resonance and the Egyptian Revolution that is helpful […]
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Covid-19 conspiracies and the media: or, Toward an epidemiology of media trust
Posted in Media ecology, Science & society, tagged Anomalies, Bruno Latour, conspiracies, conspiracy culture, conspiracy theories, Coronavirus, COVID-19, disinformation, epidemiology of media trust, epistemology, fake news, information regimes, infovirology, media, media ecology, media politics, media theory, media trust, mediasphere, post-truth, Q, QAnon, Steve Fuller on May 17, 2020 | 4 Comments »
The global pandemic of Covid-19 has been accompanied by a proliferation of competing narratives of what the crisis is and means, and how it should be addressed. The UN and the World Health Organization have called this an “infodemic,” that is, an epidemic (or pandemic) of information that, in its confusing diversity, has made it […]
More on pandemic politics & future scenarios
Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, disaster, disaster capitalism, disaster environmentalism, future scenarios, futures studies, pandemic politics on April 6, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a lot of interesting thinking going on in response to the coronavirus pandemic and how it will “change everything.” Here’s the beginning of a curated sampling. It takes for granted that there will be suffering, a lot of it, unequally distributed and with a preponderance of it coming down on first responders and low-wage, […]
Ukraine & the threat of direct democracy
Posted in Politics, tagged anarchism, direct democracy, Politics, revolution, Ukraine on February 22, 2014 | 3 Comments »
“Power to the millions, not to the millionaires” (#Leftmaidan) Three forms of democracy vie with each other in Ukraine today. The first of these is what we might call authoritarian democracy. This is a hybrid of democracy and authoritarian rule, in which partially developed democratic institutions can be relatively easily played off against each […]
Observations: politics – media – empathy
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged eventology, Japan tsunami, media ecology, new media, political ecology, Politics on March 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A few observations from the events of the last week or so: (1) Tsunamis happen. When they do, in a globally media-connected world, they bring us all a little closer together. (Not all of us; those who don’t wish to be brought closer may drift further apart. But, to risk getting overly psychoanalytical, those who’ve […]
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