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I read Chomsky a while ago. Please correct me if I misunderstand or misinterpreted him. According to Chomsky, the interests of the ruling elite are ma...

It is a good point! I just want to add that the successful destroying of certain 'old' forms of power would be impossible without their simultaneous r...

Chomsky supports BLM.[/quote I could not imagine that Chomsky is relevant to understand what is going on in the US right now. May be, we should go bac...

Does it mean that corporations have the complete control over the current agenda and what can happen next? Likely, yes. But you cannot be completely s...

It is not obvious at all. Look around you, and you will find it. There are a lot of ways to frame the ongoing events in the US.

Is that so simple? May be, this time 'a culture war' is different and rich and powerful will lose if the events will be out of their control.

Could you expand, please. I did not understand you.

I agree with you. There are different attempts to frame the current protest. One of them is that we indeed deal with a revolutionary situation that co...

So far, it is too early to make any predictions. Some people noted that one of the tangible results of the ongoing protests is the intensification of ...

I agree with you. So what do you think of the current situation? Will be there the significant improvement of the systemic problems? What could make t...

What exactly can we learn from the past to understand the meaning of the current protest? We cannot rely on 1789, 1917, or 1968 events to acquire some...

It is possible to radicalize your position as not sufficiently left. Most of the existing political forces, leaders, big corporations, and the media h...

You are right. Yet, even ‘those who prefer to talk to others in person or read a newspaper or books’ would inevitably feel the pressure of the new sty...

It is precisely the point that I want to discuss again. We can instantaneously share our judgments, moral views, perspectives, emotions, feelings, and...

I can't entirely agree. Speed and acceleration have been increasing compared to the Middle Ages when the whole generations did not experience (subject...

You could read Weibel's essay mentioned in OP of this thread.

Agamben, in "Homo Safer", has developed a theory of sovereign power based on dialectics of inclusion/exclusion. Starting from ancient Rome, juridical ...

Yes. All in all, violence (negatively understood) is not determined through theories and definitions. It is about the set of political decisions and s...

There are important differences comparing with the Occupy protests of 2011. I think that the media coverage as well as the general public support has ...

You are right. I need to re-formulate my question again. Yet, don't you think that we leave in time of accelerating social changes? These changes are ...

Thank you, I fixed it.

It is correct in general. But it does not explain how fascism was possible. Beyond ideology, the certain leadership, the economic, political, and soci...

We will see. So far, we witness the complete pause. Trump, as well as GOP leaders are completely silent for 9 days. Therefore, it is possible to assum...

The domination of systemic racism discourse makes Tramp's "Make America Great Again" rhetorics meaningless, so his campaign has to invent the differen...

You mentioned four possible future outcomes, and you rejected the first one as least probable, because Your first option may become much more probable...

Baudrillard's perspective supports the thesis that the media is the function of power, and its primary purpose is to maintain the status quo. Dayan an...

Yes, I think so. If you read Weibel’s essay, mentioned in OP, you could find that there is the evolution of perspectives on violence, starting from Be...

I am perplexed by the point of unconscious engagement in ‘systemic racism.’ Many people do not publicly exhibit or privately express any recognizable ...

It is not a matter of enthusiasm. It is the matter of the state of things.

Thank you for the excellent point! Indeed, we could think that there is no violence when one behaves as a good citizen in the absence of the apparent ...

I would like to return to your apprehension of symbolic violence: I think that you presented correct, but narrow and reduced conception of symbolic vi...

I do not think that Foucault's aim was to authorize the means of domination.It looks like his intention was to make them discernible. He attacked the ...

I will answer your last post tomorrow

The Anti-Oedipus' desire could produce the collective unconsciousness beside the rule of Law, the fear of castration, or any other feature of the oedi...

It is right as a common sence point of view. However, we cannot explain a variety of patterns of human behaviour by the fear of panishment.

Most likely, Anti-Oedipus was written to counter the conceptions of the internalization of the repressive coercive regimes of violence as a primary mo...

I think that a teacher’s major institutional task is to include her students into a wide educational network by using primarily nonviolent, seemingly ...

Actually, you did not accept my attempts to explain what happened. It is OK. Yet, after all, what is your own version (explanation)? Why did the media...

It could be productive to compare the ongoing protests with the 1968 civil unrest events in France. The events reached such a point that the national ...

This is a kind of media resonance effect, when various media platforms start covering the same story in a similar way. One of the theories (of Niklas ...

Is that possible to show explicitly that a teacher is exercising a sort of micro-power while teaching a class? She is not entirely focused on controll...

Do you think that Minnesota Public Radio reporting was decisive factor in forming the nationwide narrative? Also, do you remember the initial media co...

Most likely, you would not ask the New York Stock Exchange broker to make decisions according to some moral or religious system of values. They have t...

There is the radical approach to the media that I appreciate: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=1302 Niklas Luhmann proposed that the media constitu...

To answer this, I would like to get back to your OP. Indeed, the media was swift. Likely, it is possible to represent what happened using the followin...

Could you bring a few concrete examples? How Sartre's perspective on violence was different from the 'classical' marxist view?

You are right. To make it clear, it is necessary to bring a more rigorous framework. First, I do not think that somebody's private opinion is worth qu...

The contemporary society maintains the social order without the firm support of dominating ideological or religious authorities. Also, the state’s exe...

All in all, I completely understand your perspective. Yet, I think that we cannot change the media. When you write: “the media is partly to blame for ...

The media role is to transcend and transform any possible struggle, any potential or actual conflict, to cover the entire field of all decisive events...