Civil rights discourse limits justice to formal equality
How civil rights frameworks constrain justice within procedural boundaries, preventing substantive transformation of power structures.
Cloud computing centralizes power while promising distributed access
The cloud's promise of universal access masks the most concentrated power structure in human history.
Collective memory studies ignore material bases of remembering
Academic memory studies deliberately overlook how economic and technological infrastructure shapes what societies remember and forget.
Community gardens get co-opted by real estate development
How grassroots value creation becomes a marketing tool for capital extraction, and why genuine community worth cannot survive under real estate logic.
Creative commons licensing enables corporate appropriation of free culture
How Creative Commons creates a one-way valve that benefits corporations while impoverishing creators and the commons itself.
Critical thinking courses teach conformity to academic authority
Critical thinking education has become a sophisticated method for producing intellectual conformity while maintaining the illusion of independent thought.
Cryptocurrency promises freedom while enabling surveillance
The fundamental contradiction at cryptocurrency's core: liberation rhetoric masking the construction of perfect surveillance infrastructure.
Cultural memory gets commodified through heritage tourism
How the tourism industry transforms authentic cultural memory into sanitized, consumable products that serve economic interests while erasing genuine historical meaning.
Cultural preservation freezes living traditions into museum pieces
How institutional cultural preservation transforms dynamic living practices into static artifacts, destroying the very thing it claims to protect.