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taku-takaizumi

4 years ago

Camera Phones as Equalizer

American people use phones as weapons to defend themselves and document things in the BLM movement. Camera phones can be weapons like guns but in different ways. Philosopher Hanna Arendt once discussed that power is generated and maintained by communicative practices, on the other hand, violence is instrumental as a physical force. A camera phone, a phone that is equipped with came, as weapons are more related to Arendt’s definition of “power” even though it is an instrument.

Making visible evidence

This article will be broadcast in my podcast very soon.

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blm racism us racial jutice equality camera phone technology STS Science and Technology philosohpy sociology anthropology power violence trevor noah weapon guns police brutality surveilence subject object democracy

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