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Hashtags like #CancelRoseanne operate like a virtual public square in which response to racial insults are offered and debated. Memes, too, are an effective tool for dragging racism.
Race After Technology
Ruha Benjamin
I think we can see a different dimension of the potential for decomputing in the disability movement. They are resisting savage cuts to welfare justified by stigmatising algorithms of suspicion, and through being labelled as unproductive members of society. They also have a deep understanding of the way disability itself is socially constructed by the technologies that society chooses to use or not to use.
Decomputing as Resistance
Dan McQuillan
In his new book, Robert Talisse, a philosophy professor at Vanderbilt University, agrees with the dissenters that our politically polarized and politically saturated culture is not in good shape. But he disagrees about the solution. “Calls for bipartisanship and cooperation are insufficient,” Talisse writes, “and in a way misguided. More and better politics cannot be the solution . . . because politics is the problem.” Americans are “overdoing democracy in that politics has become practically inescapable,” and hence “we have to put politics in its place.”
Are Americans Overdoing Democracy? | National Review
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