Tag: Digital Resistance
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Liberation and coercion
There should be a catchy phrase for this phenomenon. It’s important to understand in its own terms but contrasting emphasis on each pole tend to divert scholarly debates into tedious dichotomies that obscure the underlying reality. From loc 3411 of The Data Revolution by Rob Kitchin: Often seemingly opposing outcomes are bound together so that […]
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Fragile movements and their political cultures
From Inventing the Future, by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, loc 85-94: From the alter-globalisation struggles of the late 1990s, through the antiwar and ecological coalitions of the early 2000s, and into the new student uprisings and Occupy movements since 2008, a common pattern emerges: resistance struggles rise rapidly, mobilise increasingly large numbers of people, […]
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The Moral Reasoning of Edward Snowden
I’m reading Glenn Greenwald’s No Place to Hide and thought these statements from Edward Snowden were powerful: "I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light." – @Snowden — Mark Carrigan (@mark_carrigan) June 2, 2016 "Leadership is about acting first and serving as an example for others, not waiting for […]