Albanian mountain views in black and white

The Transcontinental: Benign sousveillance across Europe's other spaces

Column
Tom Van Hout
24/08/2023
10 minutes to read

Ultracycling throws into relief the prosaics of machine vision in heterotopian spaces of hedonism and minimalism. I illustrate what it's like to navigate surveillance technology in an ultracycling race across Europe.

Ultracycling throws into relief the prosaics of machine vision in heterotopian spaces of hedonism and minimalism. I illustrate what it's like to navigate surveillance technology in an ultracycling race across Europe.

The (pseudo)science of profiling and surveillance

Column
Piia Varis
16/02/2020
9 minutes to read

Both online profiling and targeting as well as border surveillance are big business, but both also seem to rely on dubious scientific claims and foundations.

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Online gravedigging, identity and privacy

Column
Mingyi Hou
10/02/2020
11 minutes to read

This article analyzes gravedigging as a digital practice, and illustrates its roles in online shaming and celebrity image management activities.

Debates on populism and diversity

The monolingual bias in studies on populism

Column
Juan Eduardo Bonnin
30/01/2020
4 minutes to read

Scholarly articles written in English about populism often forget linguistic and discursive diversity.  Drawing from a monolingual tradition, they tend to overlook linguistic and discursive diversity in the political processes they study.

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Conservative critiques of identity politics as divisive

Column
Rosalyn Negrón
13/01/2020
11 minutes to read

Rosalyn Negron unpacks the logics that underlie conservative critiques of left identity politics and zooms in on the specific significance of this discursive frame among conservatives.

Elisabeth Warren

Elisabeth Warren, clickbait and truth

Column
Jan Blommaert
15/01/2020
6 minutes to read

Elisabeth Warren's statement on her male contenders being "electoral losers" enables us to examine the ways in which clickbait actually works.

Trumps Tweetopoetics

Column
Jan Blommaert
19/01/2018
6 minutes to read

Trump speaks in tweets. But his tweets are made for speaking too.

Twitter politics

Twitter politics: the next stage

Column
Jan Blommaert
07/01/2020
6 minutes to read

Two recent incidents on Twitter in the wake of the US attack on Iran's general Soleimani show us how Twitter continues to define politics as we know it.

Someone in New York finally put me on a panel …

Column
Kevin Doyle
03/07/2017
8 minutes to read

Kevin Doyle sees a vast consolidation and compression of human experience into more and more narrow and predictable terms. The unique language and vocabulary that innovative forms of the arts provide us can be an antidote, according to him.

Did Brexaustion kill Corbyn's media strategy?

Column
Jan Blommaert
15/12/2019
12 minutes to read

Analyses of Corbyn's social media campaign overlook something: the fact that politics is played out in a weaponized hybrid media field.

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Why has Cultural Marxism become the enemy?

Column
Jan Blommaert
03/10/2018
13 minutes to read

Cultural Marxism is blamed for "globalism" and its discontents. Perhaps exploring globalization can be an alternative for this deeply flawed conspiracy theory.