An auto-exploiting labourer of your own psyche: notes after reading Byung-Chul Han

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

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