I’ve reviewed Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics in the latest issue of the London Review of Books.
Tag: platforms
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‘Why the right wins online’
I discussed the success of the Right online for the New Economics Foundation podcast, following my London Review of Books article about Farageist Tiktok
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‘Reaction value: affective reflex in the digital public sphere’
A new academic article published in Distinktion, of which a preprint is available here (or there are apparently free downloads here for the first 50 people who click on the link). This is a theoretical development of the themes I explored in my LRB Winter Lecture last year.
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‘Trust and authenticity in the age of infinite data’ – Dublin, 7th June
I will be giving a public keynote lecture in Dublin on 7th June, as part of this conference on ‘trust’ hosted by University College Dublin. Register here to attend.
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‘Where the internet went wrong – and how we can reboot it’
Review essay in The New Statesman, discussing The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is by Justin E. H. Smith and Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff.
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‘The Problem of Trust in the Digital Public Sphere’
In February I was invited by Marion Fourcade to give a lecture at Social Science Matrix, UC Berkeley. The lecture, based on various recent arguments and pieces of mine on neoliberalism, platforms and the crisis of liberalism, was entitled ‘The Problem of Trust in the Digital Public Sphere’. You can watch it here.
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Podcast interview with Novara on identity, recognition and reputation in the platform economy
I spoke to James Butler about my recent New Left Review article. The interview also mentions this article in European Journal of Social Theory, about the rhetoric of ‘injustice’ and this piece in London Review of Books about the politics of ‘like’ and ‘dislike’.
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‘The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Social Media’
Article published in New Left Review, exploring how the politics of recognition is transformed by the technologies of platform capitalism.
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