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Tag: Post-truth
Gaming Democracy Webinar: Computer Games and the Far Right. Ashton Kingston and Andrew Westerside
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The Battle of Ideas – I’m Being Cancelled Update 6
I’m still trying to comprehend what I saw last weekend.
The Battle of Ideas is a series of talks and ‘debates’ (assuming one can debate an issue in an environment of rigid conformity) organised by the libertarian think tank the …
Gaming Democracy Webinars
I’m starting a new project with Tom Drayton at UEL. Gaming Democracy: Participatory Performance Strategies for Countering Far-Right Politics is investigating how online communities and ‘game-play’ processes are weaponised by fascist and white supremacists groups to radicalise, recruit and terrorise. …
Hannah Arendt and Digital Thinking
I’ve recently read Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. It was a bestselling title on Amazon in 2017, a fact attributed to Trump’s election. But as the book makes clear totalitarian politics has no single or clear origin. No one …