All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us
-
Notes on Media Ecology, Disinformation & Propaganda, Pt. III: Outline
This section is (slightly^^) less theoretical and more straigthforward, because it’s an overview of some of the primary actors of modern propaganda and their concrete ideological and strategical intentions. While the theoretical (e.g. causal) relationship(s) between the structural or collective level of systemic ideology/dehumanizations/culture, and individuals’ specific ideological developments and politicizations, is very complex and…
-
Notes on Media Ecology, Disinformation & Propaganda, Pt. II: Research/Concepts
Understanding Contemporary Media Ecology, Disinformation & Propaganda Some authors who completed meta-analyses (Abu Arqoub et al. 2020, Li and Tang 2012, Zheng et al. 2016, Wasike 2017) have criticized the fact that most of the research on disinformation (and “fake news”) and in media and communication studies is atheoretical. It’s therefore necessary to use some…
-
Notes on Media Ecology, Disinformation & Propaganda, Pt. I: How Not to Study Propaganda
Without pretending that disinformation and propaganda were in any sense less dangerous, destructive or widespread in the past, pre-Internet era, their sheer proliferation in the 21st century has been rather overwhelming. Among other things, we’ve seen genocides in Myanmar and Tigray being celebrated and intensified through social media, far right murder plots organized through forums,…
-
Resources for Organising and Revolts
This is an ongoing list of resources, tools, guides, links, etc. for liberatory and radical/revolutionary praxis/movements. Libcom: Community Organising: “Information, guides and tips on organising around issues which affect you and other people living in your local area.” Including (original links): Don’t Pay campaign (UK): How to run a community stall Haringey Anti-Raids: How To Set Up…
-
List of Critical Readings
Here’s an ongoing list of critical/radical readings that have influenced me and that I want to keep as important references/resources! Some of those are also ones that I plan to read but I already know are crucial. Chuǎng: China FAQ Issue #1 (2016), esp. Sorghum & Steel: The Socialist Developmental Regime and the Forging of…
-
Documentation: European RedBrown Confusionism
Initial date (it’s an ongoing list/resource): 03.01.2023. By definition RedBrown politics, or confusionism (a similar term I know from/used in France), is an amorphous and creeping tendency rather than a clearly delimitated political current. There are therefore multiple things that can be said to constitute it, although I don’t think we need to care too…
-
12 Rules for WHAT – Post-Internet Far Right [PDF]
Hi comrades, here’s a re-composed PDF version of Post-Internet Far Right: Fascism in the age of the internet, by the authors of the 12 Rules for WHAT podcast – Sam Moore and Alex Roberts. post-internet-far-right Note: illustrations and original formatting (e.g. italics or uppercase note numbers) aren’t included, but if someone find the original ebook…
-
Sociology & Liberation: Children, Adult Domination & Incest
Initial date (it’s an ongoing list/resource): 27.08.2022. In a way that is only paralleled by things like violence against disabled folks, the brutalization and dehumanization of children in modern society is one of the most overlooked forms of social domination and hierarchy, including in radical (left/anarchist/etc) circles. Moreover, it’s possibly the foremost type of oppression…
-
The “Tragedy of the Commons” Myth
Date: 11.08.2022. The so-called “Tragedy of the Commons” is one of capitalism’s “just-so stories”, in the words of Kevin Carson. As he wrote in 2016: Every system of class domination relies on a collection of myths — “just-so stories” — to present itself as natural and inevitable to those living under it, and to defend…
-
Selected readings on the war in Ukraine
Just as I compiled some critical resources on the “Rojava”/AANES situation, I will here include some good readings on the situation in Ukraine. Obviously not implying 100% agreement (there’s indeed some stuff I’d be critical about in some of those), but interesting/useful viewpoints. In both cases, some journalists, centrists/liberals, and a part of leftists/anarchists themselves…