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About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Introduction Protest and the Media

Economic Crises and Protest Movements

Protest Times

Protest Spaces

Protest Speeds

Protest Technologies

1. Crisis and Critique

Crisis: Capitalism in a Permanent State of Exception?

Critique: Filling the Void?

Protest Movements’ Media Practices

An Archaeological Approach to Media Practices

Archiving Critique: Archiving Protest Movements?

Overview Materials

Conclusion: Critical Junctures as Histories of Media Participation

2. Protest Times: The Temporality of Protest Media Practices

Mechanical Speed: Unemployed Workers’ Movements

Perpetual Flow: Tenants’ Movement

Perpetual Flow of the 1970s Television

Digital Immediacy: The Occupy Wall Street Movement

Conclusion: Digital Immediacy in the Age of Social Media

3. Protest Spaces: The Production of Space in Events of Contention

The National Hunger March of 1931

Housing Crimes Trial, 6 December 1970

The Ows March on Brooklyn Bridge, 1 October 2011

From Space Bias to Hyper-Space Bias

Conclusion

4. Protest Speeds: Resynchronizing Fast Capitalism

The Speed of Fast Capitalism

Desynchronization

Protest Movements’ Re-Synchronization: Adaptation, Abstention, Attack and Alternatives

Conclusion: The Speed of Quadruple A

Conclusion. Protest Technologies: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will

Historical Trajectories: Media Regimes of Time and Space

Notes on Technological Determinism

Futures of Protest Media

Collections and Materials

References

Index

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