SOCY 284 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Arab Spring, Concretion, Global Dimension
27 Oct 2016
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Expression and stabilizations of ways of ordering social life. For star infrastructure is political because the do stabilize the way we order social life. Looking for master narrative and residual categories. Looking at invisible work infrastructure that is hidden . we don"t notice it in our everyday life problem. Complex relationships between hardware users and practices get turned into oversimplifying narratives by media and politicians dangerously oversimplifying the complexities which is problematic. Obscures actual struggles and negotiations on the ground. Materiality- the hardware story users and super users -the social story concretion- the facile story. None of these are sufficient by themselves have too look at all of them. The social story anonymous activist network intimately tied to the internet known for series of political interventions have grown into poitical activist ntwork. Anonymous where you can post photos and discuss them memes originate form there . Trolling comes from there too practices of humor and grotesqueness.
