Re: Phillips/Beyer/Coleman: "false assumption that

2017-04-21 Thread Morlock Elloi
Let's agree that "Anonymous" means "don't know who or how many of them", so for the purpose of this discussion: replace "Anonymous" with "people with blood type A, Rh+", and see if the statement still makes sense. On 4/20/17, 14:39, Felix Stalder wrote: In the case of Anonymous, it seems to m

Re: Phillips/Beyer/Coleman: "false assumption that

2017-04-21 Thread Brian Holmes
On 04/21/2017 04:44 AM, David Garcia wrote: > The question B) More interesting is the second question: Is there something > inherently alt-right in Anonymous? Is also tackled in some depth by > Coleman et al but conclude that the relationshp between alt-right > “trolling” to 4Chan and Anonymous

Re: Phillips/Beyer/Coleman: "false assumption that

2017-04-21 Thread David Garcia
Hi, there is a very informative essay published a month ago on Motherboard by Whitney Phillips, Jessica Beyer and Gabriella Coleman with the rather long title Trolling Scholars debunk the Idea that Alt.right’s Shitposters have Magic Powers. These three ethnographic researchers have been squatt

Re: Phillips/Beyer/Coleman: "false assumption that

2017-04-21 Thread Felix Stalder
I'm not sure I get where this thread is going, or better, where it is coming from. There are, in my view, two different questions here. A) has the far-right meme culture played a significant role in Trump winning the election? The short answer is clearly no. We're in the midsts of a deep systemic