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The Machinery of Legitimation III
How the machinery of legitimation is unravelling in the two most important democracies: the US and India.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 3
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of the surveillance economy and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 2
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of the surveillance economy and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 1
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of the surveillance economy and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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Lynn Nottage: Political Economy Hidden in Plain Sight
The playwright Lynn Nottage. Political economy as drama crafted from reality.
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The Collapse: The Influencer Economy Automates Itself
A story about what happens when a business figures out that the thing it was paying for — attention, trust, a face people feel they know — never actually required a person attached to it.
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The Ideal Is Not in the Head
The demonstration of what is at stake when thought loses its friction with reality and becomes a closed loop of self-confirming categories.
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Africa: Meet the New Gatekeepers, Same as the Old Gatekeeper
Examining the historical and contemporary political economy of extraction in sub-Saharan Africa through the lens of “gatekeeper states”.
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Nine Programmes: What British Television Actually Changes
Sixty years of British television, drama and documentary alike. What was it? Who made it, and why? What happened the night it went out? Did anything real follow.? And does anyone still reach for it now?
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