Collective memory
Collective memory does not preserve the past. It selects, distorts, and defends group identity.
Cognitive bias
The systematic ways judgement goes wrong, reliably enough to name.
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Spiral of silence
Perceived majority opinion silences minorities — but only in specific electoral conditions, not everywhere, and not because people are inherently afraid.
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Adbusters
Adbusters diagnosed media inequality in 1989—and never updated the remedy.
Crypto-anarchy
Crypto-anarchy doesn’t change politics—it changes how Internet users imagine political change.
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Culture jamming
Culture jamming doesn’t break the system—it just makes the system quote itself back at you.
Cypherpunk
Cypherpunk turns cryptography into a political weapon.