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Mark Carrigan

Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • The original sin of the digital utopians

  • Ubiquitous drone surveillance 

  • The fortress city and what it may portend

  • Politico-environmental crisis

  • The revenge practices of plutocrats

  • The fortress city scenario 

  • What is platform cooperativism?

  • Charles Taylor: Ways Democracy Can Slip Away

  • What does techno-fascism look like?

  • The epistemology of democracy’s death

  • The Banal Reality of Democracy’s Death

  • a bleak social theory for bleak times

  • The lineaments of techno-fascism

  • The bureaucratic origins of algorithmic authoritarianism

  • Donald Trump’s Words of Power

  • The Everyday Life of Incipient Fascism

  • How the Pentagon imagines the future of cities

  • A Trump Presidency and the Militarisation of America

  • Social democracy is not post-capitalism, it’s past capitalism

  • The Dystopic Turn in Social Science

  • Images of the end of capitalism

  • The components of social democracy 

  • Are journalists personally afraid of a Trump presidency?

  • The future of labour in digital capitalism

  • From Platform Capitalism to Protocol Communism

  • The future of digital corporate personhood

  • CfP: Anarchist Technologies Repair Manual

  • From the mass surveillance state to techno-fascism

  • Surveillance and the Public Sphere: confronting a democratic dilemma

  • The EU: a flawed democracy whose failures are fuelling the rise of fascism?

  • The Utopian Promise of Cyberspace

  • What would techno-fascist punishment look like?

  • The Entlastung of the Quantified Self

  • The Power of Digital Media to Shape False Narratives

  • The Fatalism of the Multitude

  • Rich nations as entropy hubs 

  • The Aristocracy of the Digital Celebrities and the Magical Thinking That Props It Up

  • What would a socialist version of Netflix look like?

  • Franklin Roosevelt on threats to democracy 

  • Using fiction as a resource for social theorising

  • On Techno-Fascism

  • on nihilism and hope

  • the failed promise of ‘cyber politics’, the empowerment of defensive elites and the death of liberal democracy

  • will capitalism die? or merely trundle on in an ever more authoritarian way?

  • What will the Millennial Fascist look like?

  • bureaucratic bloat as a defining feature of digital capitalism

  • mapping the post-capitalist paradigm and its thinkers

  • the right-wing plot to overthrow FDR and install a dictator in the US (and more on the potential for fascism in the united states)

  • techno-fascism and six factors which could bring it about

  • images of the human in digital social science

  • the slippery slope towards techno-fascism

  • the digital repression that a trump presidency would bring 

  • a dystopian vision of where the infoglut is leading us 

  • digital capitalism and the bestiary of the imagination 

  • the affective basis of techno-fascism?

  • post-capitalism: envisaging a shared future

  • the eugenecist temptation for digital elites 

  • the sociology of the camp

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