Digital Activism Within Post-Fordism: Interventions Between Assimilation and Exclusion

Alexandra Reynolds

doi:10.1007/978-94-024-1555-1_46

Digital Activism Within Post-Fordism: Interventions Between Assimilation and Exclusion

Alexandra Reynolds

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This chapter explores structural barriers to effective critical practice in Post-Fordist capitalism, with reference to Jacques Rancière’s Consensus Democracy, Manuel Castells’ Network Power, Zygmunt Bauman and David Lyon’s theories of Liquid Power, Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello’s work on New Capitalism, and Jodi Dean’s work around Communicative Capitalism. The chapter introduces a range of digital tactics and techniques successful in disrupting recent hegemonic forms of power. Examples of successful digital activism are drawn principally from histories of Tactical Media and Hacktivism. The chapter closes by considering the continued value of existing tactical and hacktivist techniques in a Post-Trump, Post-Brexit world, where the hegemonic rhetorical and cultural dynamics of liberal consensus have seemingly shifted.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Second International Handbook of Internet Research
Editors	Jeremy Hunsinger, Matthew M. Allen, Lisbeth Klastrup
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	469-488
ISBN (Electronic)	978-94-024-1555-1
ISBN (Print)	978-94-024-1553-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1555-1_46
Publication status	Published - 10 Oct 2019

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