Comms-Alt-Delete
The dissenting voice on the shelf. Jack Jeffrey, interviewed: “what we do not need are better stories” — you develop a story by doing things and being seen to do them; the left’s real problem is a Westminster overrun with comms people and short of anything to sell. Where he does agree with the Library is on where political education now happens: on message boards and podcasts that have become the new think tanks, with a “posting to policy” pipeline the left has ceded by retreating into NGOs and academia. In the Library so that the case for narrative work has to answer him.
Also see The Left (Still) Doesn't Understand the Internet, Cultural Hegemony.
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