"The lumbung interlokal and other forms of shaking the land."

>"Meta’s blocking of Canadian news is a direct response to Canada’s Online News Act, which mandates major tech firms pay local news organizations for using their media links. But the “link tax” furor underscores a deeper issue: media _...Read More_

>"The royalist establishment is denying the will of the people once again."

"Governments in the digital age face difficult choices in negotiating with powerful technology companies and citizens without losing legitimacy or succumbing to unforeseen threats."

"This putative shift to a “narrative war” over Taiwan is pivotal not only because of the implications for geopolitical conflict, but with respect to intergenerational tensions within China itself."

"Mao’s poem ‘Swimming’ is a poetic evocation of the glorious changes that were intended to transform the Chinese nation through the collectivization of agriculture and accelerated industrial production. Written before the suppression of the _...Read More_

"Over time, the prominence of Christian socialism waned, both inside and outside the Left. After 1917, the prestige of Bolshevism solidified the position within the Left of a militantly atheistic form of Marxism. Meanwhile, with the advent _...Read More_

>"We don’t know how our actions will be received in the future – with art, that’s the whole beauty"

"Media theorist Elizabeth Losh explains how politicians' digital strategies appeal to the same fantasies of digital connection, access, and participation peddled by Silicon Valley."

"The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change and other pressing planetary _...Read More_

"Reflections on Guantánamo, this year’s Berlin Biennale controversy, and the artworld’s tendency for shallow political consciousness"

"NO ONE WOULD DENY THAT THE INTERNET has altered the tenor, the feel, the style of public life. The web contains much of the record of that life, and in turn directs how that life is conducted."

Memes are incredibly powerful.