Re: <nettime> Sign the BAN X in EUROPE petition and join the campaign

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A Legacy Media Executive and a Historian of Ideas walk into a pub.

Says the Legacy Media Executive:

"..Thank Goddess for X, seemingly no one is complaining about our 
editorialising these days, it's almost as if they like it, this White 
Man World of Liberal Fata Morganas we keep serving them up with Pharma 
Capital ad money backing....".
Mumbles the Historian of Ideas, half to them-self:

"...Yea, that's the pendulum at play. When the (socalled) liberal elite 
feels threatened by people power, "they" put on a fascist mask to make 
you come crawling back to daddy, begging for good old fashioned colonial 
capitalism and stacked supermarket shelves...".
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On 10/16/24 09:34, Allan Siegel via nettime-l wrote:
> Hello Nettime
>
> Thanks Pit Schultz for your very relevant posting. To further move the 
> discussion forward:
> Focusing singularly on the problematic nature of one particular *social 
> media* platform, whether X or any of the other obscene monopolies, skews 
> the dimensions of a critical ongoing discourse. And, deters us from 
> reconfiguring the dynamics of this critical political horizon.
> The residual and reductive branding of these grotesquely commodified 
> forms of communication as ‘social media’ conflates the inherent 
> ideological models of media monopolies with more diverse media practices 
> and evolving multi-dimensional social spaces: many of which are seeking 
> to develop distinctive economic paradigms.
> As Simon tells us, “Social media have corrupted social space in so many 
> ways, leading us to the toxic situation we find ourselves in.” This 
> corruption takes the form of of an insidious type of colonialism in 
> which the extraction of all forms of data becomes an intrinsic building 
> block of corporate wealth; as many other commentators have told us: 
> branded ‘social media’ enables various processes of data extraction 
> simultaneously engineering various individual and collective forms of 
> exploitation.
> Not surprisingly, human ingenuity and political necessity have subverted 
> elements within this ‘social media’ landscape into ephemeral, but 
> nevertheless, empowering social spaces that have enabled, globally, 
> numerous political actions and progressive social activities.
> But, while these ongoing subversions and hackings, as tactical 
> interventions, provide visibility to political movements, social 
> injustices, and also disseminate otherwise vast amounts of critical 
> information, their enduring political impact remains negligible. 
> Collectively we are using matches to melt a neoliberal iceberg. We need 
> to imagine and articulate sustainable political structures and social 
> spaces: a collectively reflective ideological landscape. An ideological 
> landscape that addresses deteriorating societal and environmental 
> infrastructures and the injustices infecting people’s lives. This 
> ideological landscape is by no means monolithic but rather a visionary 
> and practical framework that inspires *tactical and strategic* political 
> processes in which media enables and compliments organised political 
> activities.
> allan
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