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social engagement to sustain democracy, people’s shared exercise of power. All of these essentials of social life are jeopardized by contemporary cultural trends which damage communication and prioritize self-interest.
Jen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
‘exploratory social science’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
In so doing, the “third space”—not of retreat, but of refusal, boycott, and sabotage—can become a spectacle of noncompliance that registers on the larger scale of the public.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
“explore examples of how community governance might work at scale.”
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
The claim establishes one of the central debates of our time: the power relationship between sovereignty and networks.
Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
Who gets to do what, where, when and how in this cultural practice, and how does this affect people? What are this practice’s relationships to social engagement, communication, social justice, equality and democracy; how might it contribute to or weaken them? If it invites participation, who can participate and on what terms? What is the quality of
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