
Episode 52: True Believers and the Case of the Writer Turned Congressman
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The Social Formation of the Digital Swarm
The masses were essentially sort of industrial bodies, the related industrial forms of political and economic organization. The swarm is a way in which multitudes of people are brought together online through scalable forms of digital networking to coordinate pressure campaigns. It's watching the entire platform decide that a certain person is evil and needs to be denounced. Or more competitive. Like gas stoves are either a left-wing or right-wing issue.
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