Nature, ‘Post-Truth’ and Platform Capitalism (With Bram Büscher)

• A [[podcast]]

https://thefirethisti.me/2021/08/20/86-environmentalism-post-truth-and-platform-capitalism-with-bram-buscher/

Publisher : [[The Fire These Times]]

Featuring : [[Bram Büscher]] / [[Joey Ayoub]]

Topics Discussed:

• Meaning of ‘[[post-truth]]’ and [[platform capitalism]]
• [[Environmentalism]], political action and [[social media]]
• Mediating knowledge and politics through [[new media]] platforms
• “Doom and gloom” versus “being optimistic”
• Temporality on social media and the urge of the ‘now’
• New media platforms are not neutral platforms
• [[Alienation]], politics and new media
• Can it be good?
• The role of new media in the conservation and environmental movements
• South Africa’s Kruger National Park, new media and racial politics
• The difference between understanding and knowledge, and how new media plays into that