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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”

...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”

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...

Every map is a fiction. Every map offers choices. It's even possible to choose something beautiful.

D.J. Waldie

It is in locomotion… that the peculiar type of organization that we call "social" develops.

Robert E. Park, The Mind of the Hobo (1925)

Weekend reading.

Christina Dunbar-Hester on geek identity and participatory expertise

Patrick Joyce - “The Rule of Freedom”

Openness... was political and postpolitical at the same time.

Nathaniel Tkacz (2015)

Guerilla Auditors: The politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay

Hacked bikes in Shanghai, 2013. HT @yunnia.

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)

“An ideology cannot be reduced to its philosophical essence.” - Stuart Hall

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