Published in Made in China Journal (February 2026)
[…] If the ‘farms’ once promised a digital utopia — an imagined community freed from state control — they now embody a more unsettling truth about contemporary populism: that participation can itself become a form of capture.

Jonas Staal, Steve Bannon: A Propaganda Retrospective, 2018. Installation view at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. Image courtesy of the artist.
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