Has Micah White's work been challenged by other scholars?
Certainly. The End of Protest rattled comfortable narratives, so scholars have prodded its seams. Zeynep Tufekci argues that networked movements collapse under their own horizontalism, challenging my insistence on continual tactical innovation rather than formal structure. Sociologists in the Mobilization journal fault the book for downplaying labour’s structural power, insisting that strikes, not meme storms, still bend capital. Others, steeped in political process theory, caution that my call for sovereignty risks romanticising leaderless upheaval without mapping clear institutional endpoints. I welcome every jab; critique is a stress test that reveals weak joints before the next uprising does.
Actionable takeaway: read detractors side-by-side with the text, then prototype an experiment that answers the critique in practice—organise a hybrid labour-meme action or design a sovereign micro-institution that proves its longevity. Theory only matters when it survives contact with reality.
Which critique ignites your curiosity, and how will you transform that spark into a living demonstration?