Sometime between the Presidential campaigns of 2008 and 2016 a paradigmatic shift in communications technologies took place that altered the balance of power for all humanity.
Public Atrocities as Crimes of Power
Individuals vying for power in the Attention Age do so on a scale measured in increments of momentary mass aggregated attention. This may account for the increasing horror of mass shootings in America, as the individual perpetrators compete for market share against the entire field of contenders, including the President of the United States. Since… Continue reading Public Atrocities as Crimes of Power
The Paradigm Shift
Until very recently the kind of event that could induce a similar brain-state in a group of people, binding them together in terror or jubilation, had to be something like a war. This is no longer the case: a "tweet" will do it...
