Tech Power’s Violence

As the lament swells around democratic crisis and the rise of the right, with populist moped-riders sweeping elections and traditional political parties left “shocked”, attention increasingly turns to the actual processes and spaces of political deliberation and their corrosion through social media and artificial intelligence (AI). Contentions around “too much screen time”, however, fall short of addressing both the significant place that social media holds in democratic/populist life and the long-coming transformation of public-private relations.