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Foucault – the lot of you

May 27, 2009

The Foucault post yesterday seemed to go down well, so I thought I’d chance my arm and respond to a couple of criticisms in a new post rather than the comment thread. Sorry, purists. My erstwhile-friend Roger from Content & Motion launched the first counter-offensive. ;-) His main point is about the decentralisation of power in [...]

Surrender! Foucault and Twitter

May 27, 2009

Some of my early hopes for social media, that it represented, like Kevin Kelly reckons, some kind of renaissance for socialism in the western world, are starting to run dry. There’s a splendid series of articles over at O’Reilly Media concerning the dark side of social media by Joshua-Michéle Ross. The first of these, The Digital [...]