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the demonstrations in Istanbul against the urban development plans for a public park; the protests against racist police discrimination in Ferguson and
the BlackLivesMatter movement – as people struggle for recognition and fight against inequality. Dissent has been met with pepper spray, batons and
in some cases, tanks and gunfire as well as increased surveillance and criminalisation. The uses of information and communication technologies are also
viciously scarred by and continuously marked by inequalities. In this maelstrom of contradictions how can we begin to make sense of what radical progres‑
sive politics might mean? How do a politics of emancipation form and materialise? How are the progressive political values of politics in common forged,
moderated and channelled into concrete practices in the digital age? What might an anti-austerity politics look like?