Municipal drinking amenities were built to control and profit from African drinking. In Bulawayo, the quality of the beer became a colonial obsession.
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Writing before the advent of the smartphone, a French philosopher foresaw a world where computers would shape our behaviour, controlling much of our lives.
Snark subreddits act as a regulatory guardrail in an industry that has gone largely unchecked.
Psychiatry has been used to enforce political conformity – and not just in authoritarian regimes.
Create a moral panic. Blame it on certain people. Commence monitoring. Deploy droves of security agents. Detain or remove the targets. Sound familiar?
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