Today we speak with Rachel Kuo about her book, Movement Media: In Pursuit of Solidarity, recently published by Oxford University Press. This fascinating study understands political activism through a unique perspective, asking the question, how do the choices activists make about how to present their movements to the public indicate key strategic, tactical, and political decisions? Kuo shows that as they seek to persuade others to join their causes, activists work out their own question...
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Today we speak with Rachel Kuo about her book, Movement Media: In Pursuit of Solidarity, recently published by Oxford University Press. This fascinating study understands political activism through a unique perspective, asking the question, how do the choices activists make about how to present their movements to the public indicate key strategic, tactical, and political decisions? Kuo shows that as they seek to persuade others to join their causes, activists work out their own question...
Materializing the Cloud—Breaking Tech’s Spell Over Us with Tamara Kneese and Xiaowei Wang
Speaking Out of Place
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Materializing the Cloud—Breaking Tech’s Spell Over Us with Tamara Kneese and Xiaowei Wang
Today I am both excited and frightened to talk with Tamara Kneese and Xiaowei Wang, two individuals whose research, writing, and activism has for years insisted on the materiality of the technologies that have brought us things like artificial intelligence, the Cloud, data centers, and digital agriculture. They explain why and how these technologies clothe themselves in ethereal garb and notions of a frictionless, beneficent capitalism while diverting attention from the vast natural and...
Speaking Out of Place
Today we speak with Rachel Kuo about her book, Movement Media: In Pursuit of Solidarity, recently published by Oxford University Press. This fascinating study understands political activism through a unique perspective, asking the question, how do the choices activists make about how to present their movements to the public indicate key strategic, tactical, and political decisions? Kuo shows that as they seek to persuade others to join their causes, activists work out their own question...
