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You're not the only one with this impression. This process is called recuperation in sociology : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_%28politics%29?wpro
by sudosysgen 4y ago
You're not the only one with this impression.
This process is called recuperation in sociology : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_%28politics%29?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_%28politics%29?wp...
- refuse 4y agoThank you, I hadn't heard of this.
- sudosysgen 4y agoIf you're interested in going down the rabbit hole, as far as I'm aware the concept first came up in Guy Debord's The Society of Spectacle. It's a bit of a weird read though. The term did take on a wider meaning in political philosophy and critical theory since, however. Now that I think about it, Embrace Extend Extinguish can be understood as the explicit application of the process recuperation to the free software counterculture.
- refuse 4y agoI'll put it on my reading shortlist! Sounds interesting.