Newsnight’s Paul Mason offers some generalisations on the recent global unrest here.

He stresses the importance of social media, the decline of ideologies, the role of women, the importance of memes, and so on. Mentions Foucault, Chomsky, Hardt and Negri, and Deleuze briefly. He says that it was generated for a discussion on Newsnight that didn’t take place. Would make for the beginning of an interesting seminar though…