Category: Posts
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Governable Spaces in Jacobin
I’m grateful for this Jacobin review essay by Robert Gorwa that features my recent book Governable Spaces: https://jacobin.com/2024/12/internet-democracy-musk-zuckerberg-profits Read the book for yourself, free here: https://www.ucpress.edu/read/books/governable-spaces
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Boulder Weekly is going co-op
Our local alt-weekly is going employee owned. Should yours? https://coloradomedia.substack.com/p/boulder-weekly-journalists-want-to
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Phoenix of Gaza in CPR
AIRED TODAY: Colorado Public Radio reports on the extraordinary work of our student Naim Aburaddi, whose Phoenix of Gaza XR project has documented Gaza, before and after this war. Experiencing this footage has shaped me forever. https://www.cpr.org/2024/12/03/cu-palestinian-student-gaza-vr-project/
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Zine arrival!
Just arrived, two beautiful boxes from Radix Media co-op full of copies of the newest MEDLab zine! Download and print yours here: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/11/08/change-cards-governance-transitions-open-source-communities
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Yancey Strickler on Looks Like New
Don’t miss this fascinating new interview with Kickstarter & Metalabel co-founder Yancey Strickler on my lab’s podcast, Looks Like New: https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/is-online-life-heading-into-dark-forests/
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Beyond demonstration projects
In this episode of The Ownership Economy podcast, I throw down on why I think the mutualist movement has lost its ambition—and how we can rediscover a vision beyond mere demonstration projects: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/theownershipeconomy/episodes/Episode-076—Beyond-Demonstration-Projects-Scaling-Shared-Ownership-for-Impact-with-Nathan-Schneider-e2r5gn9
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Democracy against Democracy
Cross-posted from Flaming Hydra. I am a professor who has spent the past decade arguing that there should be more democracy on the Internet. There is a certain convenience in this position. Democracy can sound either radical or respectable, depending on who’s listening. Who would disagree with democracy? But then, when I gave talks in…
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Democracy against democracy
Check out my debut in Flaming Hydra, a writer-owned, reader supported co-op newsletter: “Democracy Against Democracy.” Subscribe to see if there is any hope. https://flaminghydra.com/issue-208/
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The Marriage of Platforms and Politics Is Complete
On election night, the effective-accelerationist influencer @BasedBeffJezos posted a photo of Donald Trump along with Dana White and Elon Musk, captioned “CEO, CMO, CTO of the USA.” The country, the post implied, has become a tech company. The next day, Beff Jezos added, “America is back in the warm embrace of the techno-capital machine.” Once…
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On Ramesh Srinivasan’s podcast
Cornel West, Andrew Yang, and… me. I’m grateful to have the chance to join Ramesh Srinivasan’s formidable new podcast, Utopias—where we talk protest, platforms, and power. https://www.buzzsprout.com/2272465/episodes/16110084