Sublime

If he had a unifying principle, politically and economically, it is what we have said: that concentrated power in any form is dangerous, that institutions should be built to human scale, and society should pursue human ends. Every institution, public and private, runs the risks of taking on a life of its own, putting its own interests above those o

That private platforms such as Amazon’s Twitch, Twitter and Facebook now constitute the digital equivalents to public spheres is as much a political failure as one of our collective imagination.

But in any contemporary situation, the issue of naming, or indeed the problem of substituting a title or name for a…

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we are witnessing the rise of “scientific” forms of social control by the authorities. The lives of individuals are to be strictly regimented.

Our contemporary political and media environment is designed to activate fear.

But the gift of the Web wasn’t only informational: by its very existence it gave us new tools to identify and understand networks themselves.