20 May 2019
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The madness of online crowds
William Davies, author of the new book Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason, connects nineteenth-century theories of crowd behavior to today's social media.
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In this video:
- William’s new book, Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason
- Is William’s view of history Marxian or Hegelian?
- Are we experiencing a crisis of expertise or a revolt against the elites?
- The Internet as a massive crowd we are all wired into
- The populist power of calling BS on the establishment
- Politics as total war
- Was the March for Science a mistake?
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