
Episode 52: True Believers and the Case of the Writer Turned Congressman
Manifesto!
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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