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

Wirklichkeit Books, 2024

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

Visibilities, as with invisibilities are produced and managed

• 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)