The Quiet Before
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'The Quiet Before is a fascinating and important exploration of how
ideas that change the world incubate and spread.' Steven
Pinker'Filled with insightful analysis and colourful
storytelling... Rarely does a book give you a new way of looking at
social change. This one does.' Walter IsaacsonWhy do some radical
ideas make history while others founder? We tend to think of
revolutions as loud: frustrations and demands shouted in the
streets.But the ideas fuelling them have traditionally been
conceived in much quieter spaces, in the small, secluded corners
where a vanguard can whisper among themselves, imagine alternate
realities, and deliberate over how to get there. This extraordinary
book is a search for those spaces, over centuries and across
continents, and a warning that they might soon go extinct. The
Quiet Before is a grand panorama, stretching from the seventeenth
century correspondence that jumpstarted the scientific revolution
to the groundswell of the Chartists, the liberation movement on the
Gold Coast and the underground network of samizdat publications in
Soviet Russia - even the encrypted apps used by epidemiologists
fighting the pandemic in the shadow of an inept
administration.Beckerman shows that defining social movements-from
decolonization to feminism-thrive when they are given the time and
space to gestate. Now, Facebook and Twitter are replacing these
productive, private spaces with monolithic platforms that are very
public and endlessly networked. Why did the Arab Spring fall apart
and Occupy Wall Street never gain traction? Has Black Lives Matter
lived up to its full potential? Beckerman reveals what this new
social media ecosystem lacks - everything from patience to focus -
and offers a recipe for growing radical ideas again.Lyrical and
profound, The Quiet Before looks to the past to help us imagine a
different future.
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Penguin ,
Gal Beckerman
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Penguin,
Gal Beckerman
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Slovart
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