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aschrock-blog · 10 years ago
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Those in the center have to be open to a new way of thinking about politics that challenges some of their core beliefs about the sufficiency of judicious study and rational discourse and the efficacy of a professionalized politics.
Stephen Duncombe, “Dream: Re-imagining progressive politics in an age of fantasy” 
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aschrock-blog · 10 years ago
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...our spectacles will be participatory: dreams the public can mold and shape themselves. They will be active... open-ended... transparent... the spectacles we create will not cover over or replace reality and truth but perform and amplify it.
Stephen Duncombe, “Dream: Re-imagining progressive politics in an age of fantasy” 
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aschrock-blog · 10 years ago
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Lay definitions of hackers stress their savviness with opaque technologies of modernity. They can make things work. However, quite the inverse is also true: things can make the hacker.
working draft... 
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aschrock-blog · 10 years ago
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Every map is a fiction. Every map offers choices. It's even possible to choose something beautiful.
D.J. Waldie
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aschrock-blog · 10 years ago
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It is in locomotion… that the peculiar type of organization that we call "social" develops.
Robert E. Park, The Mind of the Hobo (1925)
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aschrock-blog · 10 years ago
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Weekend reading. 
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Christina Dunbar-Hester on geek identity and participatory expertise 
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Patrick Joyce - “The Rule of Freedom” 
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aschrock-blog · 10 years ago
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Openness... was political and postpolitical at the same time.
Nathaniel Tkacz (2015) 
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aschrock-blog · 10 years ago
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Guerilla Auditors: The politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay
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Hacked bikes in Shanghai, 2013. HT @yunnia. 
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aschrock-blog · 10 years ago
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The trouble is... that modern politics simply does not provide appropriate roles and institutions in which the goal of defining the common good in technology policy is a legitimate project.
Langdon Winner (1992) 
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aschrock-blog · 10 years ago
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“An ideology cannot be reduced to its philosophical essence.” - Stuart Hall 
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aschrock-blog · 10 years ago
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Machine Project presents Poetry Delivery Service
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