Politics
A set of dynamic systems, driven by conflict, and by adaptations and counter-adaptation, leading to tactical arms races...
No given mode of politics is historically inviolable.
Political tactics are a dynamic field of forces.
Populism
A type of political logic by which a collection of different identities are knitted together against a common opponent and in search of a new world
Disappointment
Indexes a yearning for a lost future
Hegemony
Ruling by the engineering of consent (according to the dictates of one particular group)
But it is NOT to be identified as a system of domination.
Should be understood as a complex, emergent mode of power, dependent on the ability of groups within society to influence others in much more diffuse ways.
It emerges out of the interactions and practices of a diverse array of groups, agents, and organizations in society. It doesn't flatten difference, but emerges out of the interplay of difference.
~ Antonio Gramsci
All from "Inventing the Future" by Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams
