Nature, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism (With Bram Büscher)
*planted: 05/09/2021last tended: 27/11/2021
- A podcast
- Publisher
- The Fire These Times
- Featuring
- Bram Büscher / Joey Ayoub
1. Topics Discussed:
- Meaning of ‘post-truth’ and platform capitalism
- Environmentalism, political action and social media
- Mediating knowledge and politics through new media platforms
- “Doom and gloom” versus “being optimistic”
- Temporality on social media and the urge of the ‘now’
- New media platforms are not neutral platforms
- Alienation, politics and new media
- Can it be good?
- The role of new media in the conservation and environmental movements
- South Africa’s Kruger National Park, new media and racial politics
- The difference between understanding and knowledge, and how new media plays into that
2. Elsewhere
2.1. In my garden
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