Neither Biden’s debate failure nor Trump’s continuing popularity (and that of Le Pen’s National Rally) should surprise us. They are explainable. And they can be overcome.
Posts Tagged ‘populism’
The conservative-populist moment?
Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged conservative populism, eco-social, ecosocialism, ecotopianism, fascism, green politics, illiberalism, Joe Biden, left-green politics, liberalism, Marine Le Pen, National Rally, populism, Putinism, Rassemblement Nationale, Trumpism, utopianism on July 3, 2024 | 3 Comments »
Klimat
Posted in Politics, tagged climate politics, fossil fuel politics, illiberalism, populism, Putinism, Russia, Thane Gustafson, Trumpism on July 10, 2022 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just posted a piece called “Understanding Russia” over at UKR-TAZ, in which I look at some proximate and deeper causes of continued Russian support for the invasion of Ukraine. It’s mainly a review of some recent literature. The part that may be of greatest interest to readers of Immanence is the concluding section, in […]
Diagnosing Trump-like derangement syndrome
Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged authoritarianism, Coronavirus, COVID-19, digital capitalism, disinformation, Donald Trump, illiberalism, information warfare, political technology, populism, Putinism, Russia, strongman politics, surveillance capitalism, Trump-Like Derangement Syndrome, United States on July 1, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
The Covid-19 situation in the United States, which has become the epicenter of new infections because of its flawed and chaotic response to the pandemic, is seen by some around the world as an emergency case of its own, requiring some sort of defensive response by countries that could become similarly infected. The Week‘s Ryan […]
More conspiratology: the internet as monochord & storm machine
Posted in Media ecology, Spirit matter, tagged affect, affective contagion, alt-left, alt-right, alternative health, Anomalies, anti-vaccination movement, anti-vaxx, complementary health, conspiracies, conspiracy culture, conspiracy theories, conspiratistics, conspiratology, conspirology, digital media, disinformation, emotional contagion, emotional surge protection, George Floyd, George Floyd protests, illiberalism, infowar, media ecology, media politics, mediasphere, monochord, New Age culture, New Age movement, populism, post-truth, QAnon, Robert Fludd, social media, Trump, Wu Ming Foundation on June 2, 2020 | 5 Comments »
At a time when the U.S. itself appears on the brink of collapse — with riots in the streets, a pandemic crippling the country’s heath care system and wreaking havoc on its economy, a president tweeting out nods of recognition to his QAnon fan base and hinting at “the Storm” that is coming — the sense-making apparatus of digital media is rife with opportunities for disinformational entrepreneurs to make headway in various directions. […]
The internet is like a huge instrument — a hyper-complex, Robert Fluddian monochord, that works by allowing for an infinity of connections through which flow the sounds and vibrations of human emotional and affective contagion. When protests erupt across the country over the senseless killing of a black man in Minneapolis, the time scale in which large-scale action occurs speeds up and become affect-driven time, not a time in which collective deliberation is really possible. This means that informational, and therefore “disinformational,” bursts into that monochord become all the more powerful.
“Illiberalism” & the utopian deficit
Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged affect, authoritarianism, Bernie Sanders, Brexit, conservatism, conspiracy culture, ecopolitics, Erdogan, fascism, global political change, green politics, Illiberal International, illiberalism, Jeremy Corbyn, left politics, liberalism, political theory, populism, Putin, resentment, Trump, utopianism on September 17, 2018 | 4 Comments »
An off-the-cuff essay, written not for any particular occasion, but just to get it out of me. It’s probably mostly common knowledge (among people on the green left), just maybe not well articulated yet, and too easily forgotten. Politically, we’re all playing a little catch-up these days. Understanding the apparent global turn we are seeing […]
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