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

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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