Digital shocks, resilience and transition

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- Resilience is the capacity of a system to survive crises, disruptions, shocks, and attacks. - Resilience is not necessarily a good thing.

• For example, sadly capitalism is a very resilient system.
• Resilient in itself, that is. Not resilient of its environment.
• Resilience determines whether shocks lead to restoration of the old system or to systemic transition.
• We need resilient digital democracy, sure, but we also need to break down the resilience of digital capitalism first.
• The left needs a shock doctrine to undermine the resilience of capitalism and to support a shift
• Leverage points are…
• A shock doctrine is…
• A shock doctrine for the left is…
• A digital shock doctrine for the left is…
• Some shocks:
  • AI, Win 10, memory crisis
• What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy?
• The Shock Doctrine of the Left