ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Evgeny Morozov, Statism, Participatory Culture

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Shawn Lehman

Document Summary

Change in an age of new media: dissent and incorporation. Change due to new means of production, effects of new media, most recently the internet: social media, financial derivatives. Hegemony and violence in earlier periods, inequality was more explicitly enforced by violence. In post-industrial hegemonic societies there is more reliance on spontaneous consent among those who are less equal . Hegemony is reinforced by the threat of violence. The state applies violence to protect the social order. It can potentially also use violence to end government by consent, and replace it with authoritarian rule ( state of emergency ) The sovereign is he who decides on the state of emergency carl schmidt. Hegemony and autocracy democratically elected autocratic rulers may limit democracy after emergencies, especially terrorist attacks (putin, 1999) violent dissent suppressed by state violence (violence meets violence) Change within the hegemony: non-violent dissent unplanned changes brought about by new means of production, including new media.