Tag: democracy

• State of Surveillance

  November 11, 2020

  In 2015, a national policy document issued by nine different Party and government bureaucracies called for “public safety video-surveillance construction, networking, and applications” across China. The policy described such surveillance systems as… more ›

• Democracy’s Afterlife

  November 8, 2020

  Trump has long framed the immediate post-election period as a temporal no-man’s-land. Neither in his first nor in his second campaigns for the presidency did he ever commit himself clearly… more ›

• Death of DRC’s Lumumba: ‘The Belgians weren’t the only bad guys’, says daughter Juliana

  September 20, 2020

  A Belgian court announced that it would return Patrice Émery Lumumba’s tooth to his family. Juliana Lumumba, daughter of the hero of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s independence, spoke… more ›

• Future fatigue

  September 15, 2020

  Winter is coming: a cold, northern, long and suspenseful season. Six months from now the world will be more pessimistic, tired of the overwhelming sentiment of defeat against the unreasonable forces… more ›

• Mark Zuckerberg Is the Most Powerful Unelected Man in America

  September 6, 2020

  Mark’s influence is staggering, far beyond that of anyone else in the private sector or in government. He controls three core communications platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — that billions… more ›

• The Twin Insurgency

  August 24, 2020

  The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness. States within the global political economy today face a twin insurgency, one from below,… more ›

• Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s Mistakes

  August 9, 2020

  It’s been four years since the 2016 election laid bare the powerful role that social media companies have come to play in shaping political discourse and beliefs in America.Since then,… more ›

• Listen to Gaming and Livestreaming: Connecting While Distancing now.

  April 4, 2020

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• Michael Ignatieff on the Future of Democracy

  February 23, 2020

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• The Schedule and the Stream

  December 13, 2019

  Right now, we’re at a tipping point between two concepts that shape how we experience the world—the schedule and the stream. The first has lasted over a century, and the… more ›