Chattering Classes/Twittering Revolutionaries: Social Media, and the Arab Spring

Abstract

Abstract:

In Culture and Imperialism Edward Said analizza internazionalità e cosmopolitismo sullo sfondodella Guerra del Golfo e dell’opinione di Rée secondo cui la “nation-form is a kind of false consciousness”, come se questa fosse “an expression of popular subjective will” (Said, 1993: 10). Ma il monopolio del potere da parte di autorità nazionali centrali produce rappresentazioni in cui “processes which are actually the effect of internationality are experienced as an expression of the natures of different nations and their individual members” (Said, 1993: 10, mio corsivo). Tuttavia il nazionalismo è problematico nei paesi che furono, per così dire, prodotti artificialmente dal colonialismo, e i social media stanno verosimilmente fornendo largo accesso ad una riappropriazione dell’intervento civile e dell’auto-determinazione.

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