Stallabrass opens with the question, “How do new media technologies affect politics and culture?” On the one hand, he says, “social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook, are seen as at least necessary conditions for the Occupy protests and the revolutions of the Arab Spring …”, but on the other, “those same technologies are viewed as the agents of intrusive commodification and dumbing-down, deployed against people’s deepest subjectivities, which they have been duped into displaying in a privatized space where everyone’s every move is spied upon.”
“Mute magazine, based in London, has been examining the interconnections between new technologies, politics and culture since 1994 — that is, from the moment when the internet was revolutionized by the introduction of web browsers that unified its interface, and rapidly brought large numbers of users online.”
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