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A powerful investigative look at databased discriminationand. The people s platform, astra taylor and cosmopolitanism, kwame a. Astra taylors engagement with philosophy, democracy, and political organizing transcends form, emerging through documentary films, books, essays, and social activism. The peoples platform is a cantlookaway tour through the bombedout wreckage of democratic culture in the internet age. From a cuttingedge cultural commentator and documentary filmmaker, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the internet as the great. Everyone on the internet needs to read the peoples. She discusses the finances of major cable companies in the united states, which freely use infrastructure laid out by the government using taxpayer money and not only. Astra taylors documentary film examined life took philosophy out of the academy and into the streets, reminding us that great ideas are born through profound engagement with the hustle and bustle of everyday life, not in isolation from it. It is hard to know if the title, the peoples platform, is aspirational or sarcastic, since taylor believes the classless aura of the web masks an unfair power structure. Born in winnipeg, manitoba, taylor grew up in athens, georgia, and was unschooled until age when she enrolled in ninth grade. This acclaimed book by astra taylor is available at in. In addition to her activism, taylor has made two other films. In the preface of the peoples platform by astra taylor, she describes to her readers about the changing culture in the current digital age or web 2.
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Faculty of media, arts and design, university of westminster. Metropolitan books, an imprint of henry holt and company, llc, a division of macmillan. Writing in the tradition of neil postman, jacque ellul and marshall mcluhan, this book is the decades deepest and most powerful portrayal of the challenges to freedom created by our full embrace of comprehensive techno. Everyone on the internet needs to read the peoples platform. Peter frase it is easier to imagine the end of the world, the theorist fredric jameson has remarked, than to imagine the end of capitalism. Her 2014 book, the peoples platform, takes a critical look at the rise of social media. A powerful investigative look at databased discriminationand how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity. I n her new book, the peoples platform, astra taylor, a cultural critic and the director of the documentaries zizek.
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It is the rare example of a book where the title itself forms a thesis statement of sorts. Taylor dips her toes in the water for a fleeting moment. Aug 03, 2016 astra taylor is the director of the documentary films zizek. Astra taylor is the author of the peoples platform winner of the american book award and made two documentary films, zizek. From a cuttingedge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the internet as the great leveler of our age the internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force, a place where everyone can be. Simple way to read download automating inequality by virginia eubanks in pdf, epub, mobi, kindle ebook and other supported formats. May 06, 2014 by coincidence, ive recently finished reading the peoples platform, astra taylors wonderful new book on culture and the internet amazon, powells, which gives a much more jaundiced account of what is happening to art in the age of inequality see here for an interview which gives some flavor of her thinking. Taking back power and culture in the digital age, which considers giant technology companies and the state of the internet as a democratizing force. The peoples platform, by astra taylor the new york times.
Taking back power and culture in the digital age, p. At 16 she abandoned high school to attend classes at the university of georgia, which she only stayed at for a year before heading to brown. Hidden driver is the creative home of laura hanna and astra taylor, who use every medium at their disposaldocumentary, animation, the written word, activist campaigning, and ethical spectacle makingto better understand the world, connect with others, and challenge the status quo. Taking back power and culture in the digital age, which i cant wait to read. Taylor is the marshall mcluhan or the neil postman of our new digital economy, the lonely voice raising urgent questions we need to answer together. In this article, taylor suggested changing wage system in order to motivate the ones who work harder. Taking back power and culture in the digital age metropolitan books, was released in april. While reading the conclusion to astra taylors the peoples platform. Astra taylor author of the new book, the peoples platform. Democracy may not exist but well miss it when its gone.
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