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What is “noopolitics”?
by anbop 7y ago
What is “noopolitics”?
- joelg 7y agoI don't think it's a standard term but you can extrapolate from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere. Maybe "the sport of influencing opinion at mass scale"
- inflatableDodo 7y agoHas been a standard term for policy wonks and polscis for a while now.
- dominotw 7y agoseems to have a wiki too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noopolitik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noopolitik
- inflatableDodo 7y agoIs a fancy-pants neologism from political theorists about how the world supposedly works these days. From 'noos', meaning knowledge. One thing I find funny, given the construction, is that nobody outside of political theory seemingly knows about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noopolitik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noopolitik
- kartan 7y agoNow we know. Thanks for sharing.
- pg_is_a_butt 7y agoIt's a globalist way to say "noose" and imply slavery of the masses, and still have an "excoos"
- barbecue_sauce 7y agoHow do you pronounce it?
- inflatableDodo 7y agoGnupolitik.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoDo you have a source? I can't find one, but have seen at least one instance with an umlaut over the second o, suggesting something more akin to "new-o-politik" to my mind, which would fit somewhat with long o ancient Greek stuff I remember from taking Greek in college long ago and far away.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoVery sorry, was making a silly joke, not providing useful pronounciation.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoThank you.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoIs one of those words I have almost never heard pronounced. And on the rare occaisions I have, it is by people who are similarly unsure of the correct pronunciation.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoBut you probably have heard similar words, such as nootropics. That word gets pronounced "new-o-tropics." Classic Greek "long o" is literally a long o. The sound is drawn out at length. So it seems likely to me this is pronounced similar to nootropics.
- kumarharsh 7y agoI thought it was a fancy contraction for 'no-op politics' where at the end of your term, the org/country would stay where it was before you :-)
- coldtea 7y ago>From 'noos', meaning knowledge. Etymologically it means intelligence (and used literally, it meant "mind").
- inflatableDodo 7y agoTrue, however Arquilla and Ronfeldt, who coined it while at RAND in the late '90s, defined it as 'the network based geopolitics of knowledge'.
- reaperducer 7y agoIt's newspeak for realpolitik. Around the turn of the millennium a lot of political words got reinvented as the power of influence became more and more outsourced to corporations and less about networks of back room deals. (Why waste years building influence when you can just buy an influence package from a "think tank.") But a consultant can't sell his company's services using 1800's words like "realpolitik," so new words were invented like "noopolitics." "Political consultants" became "policy wonks," but thankfully that term pretty much died after the Clinton administration. Also, "casual sex" became "locationships" in campaign circles. I think that term should have lasted longer. At least longer than noopolitics.
- JumpCrisscross 7y ago> Political consultants" became "policy wonks," but thankfully that term pretty much died after the Clinton administration Political operative is making a comeback.
- coldtea 7y ago> became "policy wonks" "Policy wankers" would fit better.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoI'd say it is quite distinct in definition from realpolitik as it focuses on the role of information on power games, rather than the practice of utilitarianism in power games.