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

  • Sep 3 2021
  • Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
  • Podcast
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86/ Environmentalism, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism (With Bram Büscher)

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  • 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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