Cultural Resistance
A talk with Steve Kurtz about models and techniques for public interventions and soft subversions aimed at undermining authoritarian tendencies.
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activism
Events
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MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United States
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From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won — and Lost — the GOP
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesNicole Hemmer will explain how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right -- and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.
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Between Participation and Control: A Long History of CCTV
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis talk by Anne-Katrin Weber explores the politics of CCTV, highlighting the adaptability of closed-circuit technologies, which accommodate to, and underpin variable contexts of media participation as well as of surveillance and control.
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Civic Arts Series, “Gaming the Iron Curtain: Computer Games in Communist Czechoslovakia as Entertainment and Activism”
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe idiosyncratic and surprising ways computer hobbyists in Czechoslovakia challenged the power of the oppressive political regime and harnessed early microcomputer technology for both entertainment and activism.