Power centers want the people in the margin to unquestionably follow the rules they had set. Noncompliance has no space in the process of profit-making. Therefore, in a capitalist culture of productivism, refusing to produce (what the system demands) is an act of resistance. However, refusal is deeply connected to the activist’s background, social status,…
The use of social media platforms as a way of “living in the third space” (78) and digital rhetorical spaces to resist the attention economy. Odell (2017) sees attention economy as characterized by “racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, climate change denial, which are referred to as “myths and superstitions” with no basis in reality (p….
The Yorkie is smaller in height than an average blade of grass. To her, everything is supersized, bombastically large, critically unmoored. There is no context, no meaning to convention beyond raw joy. She is open to everything and closed to none, the natural enemy of the attention economy aside from that of tennis balls. I,…