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Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:24:55 JST Nathan Schneider

Just published at the wonderful (open access) journal First Monday, my long-in-progress article on a general theory of how innovation events train us to forget: "Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics" https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13668
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  Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics
  
  This paper outlines a theory of amnesia in the face of innovation: when apparent technological innovations occasion the disregard of preexisting cultural, legal, and infrastructural norms. Innovation amnesia depends on cultural patterns that appear to be increasingly widespread: the valorization of technological innovation and the sensation of limited political space for reforming social arrangements. The resulting amnesia is by default an extension of existing structural inequalities. If innovations arise through deploying concentrated private wealth, the amnesia will likely target institutions that facilitate collective power among less powerful people. Up and down social hierarchies, however, achieving amnesia through innovation can bear irresistible allure. When other paths for structural change become mired in inertia or gridlock, amnesia may appear to be the only available pathway to reform. The purpose of a theory of amnesia is to assist affected communities in noticing it when it occurs and wielding it to their advantage, particularly through mobilizing self-governance around moments of innovation.
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  Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:31:22 JST Luis Villa
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  @ntnsndr wait when did First Monday do the subtlest revamp so that it looks basically the same yet no longer clearly c. 1999?
  
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  Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:32:17 JST Nathan Schneider
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  - Lilly Irani
  Thank you @gleemie for your insights on this!
  
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  Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:33:22 JST Nathan Schneider
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  @luis_in_brief Maybe sometime in the mid 2010s?
  
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  Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:40:42 JST Luis Villa
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  @ntnsndr love the intuition of the paper, especially in acknowledging the challenges of modern governance as an important factor (which I think is too often ignored/handwaved in left criticisms of tech).
  cc @blakereid @paulohm
  
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  Eliot Lash (eliot_l@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 05:16:55 JST Eliot Lash
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  @ntnsndr #Alt4You Screenshot of linked publication header. Logo for "First Monday: Peer-reviewed journal on the internet."
  Publication title: "Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics" by Nathan Schneider.
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  Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 05:18:02 JST Nathan Schneider
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  @Eliot_L Will do, thanks. Unfortunately my auto-poster doesn't yet support alts.
  
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