{"id":2649,"date":"2011-02-15T00:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T05:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2011-05-27T08:54:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T13:54:06","slug":"spreading-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/02\/15\/spreading-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreading revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times has a couple of nice pieces on the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions: an interactive account of the key events<\/a> and a more detailed piece<\/a> outlining the role of the different protest groups, bloggers and Facebook-ites, nonviolent resistance tactics, and the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

A few quick thoughts:<\/p>\n

1) Max Forte<\/a> is right about the U.S.’s equivocation, its policy of “hedging its bets” in a mix of realism and opportunism.<\/p>\n

2) But it’s so much better to have Obama at the helm of global empire than Bush. (Not that it’s really the helm, but it’s an important figurehead position.)<\/p>\n

3) Gene Sharp<\/a> continues to be an un(der)sung hero-tactician of late-20th\/early-21st century political struggle.<\/p>\n

4) There’s something about “the multitude<\/a>” in these events, in part at least because they come together in and through events<\/em> (including digital events), not personalities or even ideas, and because they grow through the transmission of affect<\/a>. (I’ve been reading John Beasley-Murray’s Posthegemony<\/a> (the book), which he kindly sent me a digital copy of, and it is very good, and quite helpful for thinking about these things.)<\/p>\n

5) How long will the Times<\/em> (and The Guardian<\/em> and other actual producers of news) continue to give us their services for (essentially) free? The enclosure of the digital commons remains an uphill battle; let’s make the most of the moment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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