Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present Having recently read two books by Byung-Chul Han, I thought it worth summarizing the most personally relevant aspects of each book. I've mixed quotes from both books, where they overlap and drive home the points I want to focus … Continue reading An auto-exploiting labourer of your own psyche: notes after reading Byung-Chul Han
Tag: social media
Trump vs. everyone
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. A great example of how social media has changed politics is taking place in America with the battle over how Obama’s healthcare policies are to be changed under the new administration. President-elect Donald Trump is setting the … Continue reading Trump vs. everyone
Roundup on politics, media and campaiging
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. please forgive any formatting issues. There have been a few articles that caught my eye lately, but these two stood out in the context of this blog. The always outstanding Matt Taibbi had an excellent piece on the current status of … Continue reading Roundup on politics, media and campaiging
Unscaling political parties and disintermediation
Unscaling was not a phrase I was familiar with in a political context, though the basic principle is certainly well known: conventional business paradigms are being disrupted by technology. To unscale refers to the specific act of “dismantling all large-scale, vertically integrated, mass-market institutions”. I have been writing about the disintermediation effect that we are … Continue reading Unscaling political parties and disintermediation
Media disintermediation and priming in politics
NB: This post was published in a previous blog and imported into this one. Please forgive any formatting issues. Having posted earlier on the way agenda setting and priming have functioned in the US Presidential Primaries, I thought it useful to take a look at how social media affects this process, focusing on the impact of … Continue reading Media disintermediation and priming in politics