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The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--and the Coming Cashless Society

In Benjamin’s view, this opens up art to the masses in a way that has never been possible before, enabling them to escape from the clutches of tradition – a highly desirable outcome for the revolutionary-minded Marxist.

Stuart Sim • Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides Book 0)

internet sociologist Zeynep Tufekci

Moya Bailey • #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

These Old Stories continue to infect our collective imagination, distorting how we see and value different groups, cultures, and worldviews. They even warp our conception of “human nature”—selfish, not altruistic; competitive, not cooperative; hardwired, not adaptable. They presuppose a fixed genetic or cultural predisposition that ignores the plas

Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)

Digital abundance is a mixed blessing: exhilarating, yet flattening and homogenizing. Culture is converted into “content” that blurs together as it flows through the same conduits and across the same interfaces in an endless stream. As we struggle to keep abreast of the accelerating flow of content, drawn by the perpetual lure of the new, we come t... See more

The future of youth culture: the era of monomass

Izzy Farmiloe mcusercontent.com

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Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition

MAELSTROM ESC/APE STRATEGIES

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Like other promoters, Thibault and Felipe questioned the intrinsic beauty of fashion models while wholeheartedly embracing their economic value.