“A democratic offensive can only benefit by including in its arsenal as many tools as possible [...] This presupposes blurring the distinction between ‘expert’, ‘political’, and ‘poetic’ discourse, where the politician becomes the expert, the expert becomes the politician and both become poets”

New publication out co-authored with @nicostrim.bsky.social! "Surveillance, De-Democratization and the Digital States of Exception: Cyprus, a Small State Surveillance-Post"

In its 1st blog entry, Digital Transitions & Society Research Group engages with the question of 'digital populism'. Link to full article ("Populism and the Mirror of Technology") in comments.

Ultimately, #technology was the #nation-state's condition of possibility. Its logic, mirroring that of #hegemony, provided the #social and #political basis for #nation construction projects.

#nationalism #routledge #poststructuralism #semiotics #intertextuality #nation #monograph #Laclau #discourse

Our research team (Digital Transitions & Society) presented today at the Politics of Technologies in the Digital Age Conference at the University of Ioannina. Our presentations zeroed in on the intersection of technology and populism, platformization and ontological security.

Getting some last minute help from Dall-E before my presentation 😂

#populism #technology #digitalities #politics #sociology #politicalsociology #populismstudies #nationalism

Does the logic of populist politics mirror the ontological potentials of technology? Do contemporary politics mirror technology's ontic manifestation in modern times? These are the questions I will be answering in the upcoming Politics of Technologies in the Digital Age Conference in Ioannina