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Old 02-08-2011, 07:51 AM   #156 (permalink)
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well, it's kinda hard to "speak for" or about people who do not turn out for a demo but who might support an end to dictatorship. the generating of a sense of momentum is a basic task of political action, just as generating a sense of normal is a basic task of the dominant order.

today there are tens of thousands of people out on tahrir square. they are not having the american-backed continuation of the mubarak oligarchy. nor should they.
egyptian state tv is showing suleiman looking business-like at some meeting and footage of a bridge over the nile.

Live blog Feb 8 - Egypt protests | Al Jazeera Blogs


edit: sorry: had to break off for a moment.....the above is an interesting example of information framing/management that would operate one way were you watching egyptian state tv to the exclusion of other sources, and quite another were you to encounter it in the context of the al jazeera stream/blog.

control of the framing of information is a basic political matter. the mubarak regime has lost that control. because of the rigidity of it, the regime is pretty clearly trapped in a motivation crisis, which the old frankfurt school folk of the early 1970s saw as following from legitimation crisis----the wholesale withdrawing of consent from the existing order.

how do you measure consent? how do you measure it's withdrawal?
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