“Here we have these people who can coordinate with a few other people and enter into corporations and governments and siphon off politically sensitive data and information that point to malfeasance and corruption. Holy shit. Thats a big deal.” I recently caught up with Gabriella Coleman, social anthropologist and author, as she launched her [...]
Media, Crisis and The Making Of Common Sense
Why is the vast majority of Irish media dominated with an undoubting and uncritical attitude towards a single theory of the ‘crisis’? What role does it play in legitimising, rather than challenging, the structural causes of growing inequality? And what does this mean for radical interpretations of democracy, public space and the remaking of common [...]