View source for User:Kim/reading/Sinthujan Varatharajah and Moshtari Hilal: Hierarchies of Solidarity

'''Wirklichkeit Books, 2024''' <br>

A conversation between two authors, originally held in a Instagram live stream, now published as bilingual printed text.
Together they question: what does it mean to practice solidarity? and what does it mean to do this on digital platforms?. In here they draw from a wide rage of knowledges, starting from lived experience seeping into political entanglements, philosophical and media critical studies.

* '''solidarity as reciprocity''' is even more emphasized not only through the back and forth nature of a conversation but also in the way the text was later written collaboratively, made into a book
* different  (or missing) digital infrastructures bring forth different temporalities and flows of information
** news monopolies, anything besides 'mainstream' was hardly accessible
* censorship  
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Visibilities, as with invisibilities are produced and managed
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* practical and everyday forms of solidarity, every day forms of protest ---- reminded me of 'user tactics' resisting algorithms (in Post Scriptum: The Great Algorithm, Valentina Tanni)
* what does it mean to bring academics + research into oppressed groups? possible gain in visibility for group, but bad when group remains passive informer while researchers take advantage
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The capacity to receive critique is also central to the practice of solidarity.
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Why do experiences of suffering have to outperform another in order to earn our attention or empathy?
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* One conflict, oppression cant be explained or treated through the lense of another (liberation for one does not result in liberation for all)
** though this lense is often used by protestors/ oppressed themselves with this trying to make their own struggle comprehendable (to the west)
** this is also about language, that is often missing to express suffering so precedents or comparable events are used
[[File:Hierarchies-of-language-struggles.jpeg|frameless|center]]

* platforms + economies
* when solidarity becomes state doctrine