Chris Carbonaro | transformations

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Doctoral candidate at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. Mainly preoccupied with cyber-anthropological topics, ranging from online culture(s) over games studies to activism. Music enthusiast, cooks a mean boiled egg and a dog person (disclaimer: not actually a dog wearing a human disguise).

Website: https://www.ekwee.uni-muenchen.de/personen/mitarbeiter/carbonaro/index.html

Posts by Chris Carbonaro:

Jan02

Sisyphus and the American Dream

Posted By Chris Carbonaro on Jan 2, 2020 in Allgemein, Country, democracy, English, featured, identity, Language, politics, protest, society, The Fieldnote, Topics, USA, weapons of the weak

The Cyber-utopia is dead – long live the Cyber-heterotopia! The digital era didn’t deliver on its promises of emancipating humanity and the optimistic visions attributed to online technology turned predominantly into capitalistic and totalitarian nightmares. Here is why we should have a breather before we start to smash our devices and bury them somewhere far, far away.