Local resistance experiments are insufficient without a wider vision of solidarity.
Evidence
Our point is certainly not to negate the value of such experiments in resistance to data colonialism. But if we already know that as partial actions they cannot be sufficient, we must set our sights higher; we must develop a wider vision of resistance, a vision for connecting with one another on different terms that might provide possibilities for solidarity with resistant data subjects, wherever they are. Who knows, after all, where data colonialism’s great wall will break in the end? — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 594
Categorization
- SEED: The ‘great wall’ metaphor frames data colonialism as a boundary to be breached — an angle for where systemic rather than partial resistance could break through. Possible essay on the geographies of rupture.
- XREF: connects to: Resistance efforts can be complicit with the very exclusionary power they oppose — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 1243; Utopian vision is a necessary but insufficient ingredient of politics. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 378; Ethnically homogeneous regions still lack political solidarity absent civil-rights precedent. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3645
Broader Connections
- Ethnically homogeneous regions still lack political solidarity absent civil-rights precedent.
#exemplifies(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3645 - Resistance efforts can be complicit with the very exclusionary power they oppose
#qualifies(0.78) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1243 - Utopian vision is a necessary but insufficient ingredient of politics.
#expands(0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 378