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Export: Digital Authoritarianism. A Kaleidoscope of Russia, China, and the Contemporary World Order

In Perspective The point of this petite kaleidoscope is to account for the Russian and Chinese models of digital authoritarianism and their complex ties to the international liberal order by uncovering their relations, resemblances, and differences from a historical perspective

Possibilities for Creating Thinking Spaces to Resist Right-Wing Digital Circulations

In Perspective An exploration about the ways in which right-wing digital circulations can be challenged by creating thinking spaces within communities through the use of arts-based research

By Fathima Nizaruddin

The Platform Capitalist Pandemic. An introductory inquiry into the Brazilian neoliberal management of uberization during the COVID-19 lockdown

In Perspective By connecting consumers, workers and products, digital apps have been responsible for further entrenching the Brazilian neoliberal restructuring of labour that has been going on since the 1990s.

By Fábio Luís Ferreira Nóbrega Franco

Revisiting the Panopticon and the Synopticon: An inquiry into the naturalisation of totalitarian surveillance in the name of the COVID-19 pandemic

In Perspective In the present era, the panoptic gaze focuses on the entire human population but its specific focus on minorities, migrants, and their defenders is particularly disconcerting, especially as their fate is also what awaits the rest of society.

By Gopal Krishna