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86/ Environmentalism, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism (With Bram Büscher)
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86/ Environmentalism, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism (With Bram Büscher)

This is a conversation with Bram Büscher around the topics discussed in his book ‘The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism, in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism

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Topics Discussed:

  • Meaning of ‘post-truth’ and platform capitalism

  • Environmentalism, political action and social media

  • Mediating knowledge and politics through new media platforms

  • “Doom and gloom” versus “being optimistic”

  • Temporality on social media and the urge of the ‘now’

  • New media platforms are not neutral platforms

  • Alienation, politics and new media

  • Can it be good?

  • The role of new media in the conservation and environmental movements

  • South Africa’s Kruger National Park, new media and racial politics

  • The difference between understanding and knowledge, and how new media plays into that

Recommended Books:

  • Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek

  • Darwin’s Hunch by Christa Kuljian

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