Digital Technology and the Promise of Decentralization: A Reconstruction of Popular Visions and Their Narrative Patterns

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. The Aesthetics of Collective Agency: An Introduction 9
5. I. Key Concepts
6. Collective Agency 23
7. Crowd 37
8. Affordance 51
9. Genre 63
10. Digital Affect 77
11. II. Digital Environments
12. Digital Technology and the Promise of Decentralization: A Reconstruction of Popular Visions and Their Narrative Patterns 91
13. What About Knowledge? Agency and Proletarianization in Digital Environments 113
14. Algorithmically Together: Platform Collectivity and the Memetic Politics of TikTok 133
15. III. Narrating Collectivity Beyond the Human
16. Constraints and Community in Multiplayer Video Games 155
17. Bureaucratic Form and the Future We in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future 173
18. IV. New Forms of Collective Activism
19. A Re-Invention of Language: War, National Community and a Poetics of the First-Person Plural 193
20. From “Feminist Lies” to “White Replacement”: Digital Anti-Feminist Forums as Spaces of Collective Radicalization 213
21. The Aesthetics of Oceanic Kinship in Climate Change Poetry and Activism 241
22. Appendix
23. Contributors 263