DISRUPTIVE POWER: THE CRISIS OF THE STATE IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age is designed as a unique animated invite to a public talk by Dr. Taylor Owen, Editor-in-Chief of the international affairs website OpenCanada.org and author of a book by the same title. The film was commissioned by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo, Canada, which hosted the event. For more of our work with CIGI, see The Illegal or The Franklin Expedition (artist: Abhilasha Dewan, Spring 2015)

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ABOUT THE TALK: Advances in digital communication technology have helped create a landscape of global political power that is much more complicated than ever before. In this lecture, Dr. Taylor Owen explores how technology is destabilizing processes that, for over a century, have shaped the world of international affairs, giving rise to a new form of disruptive power. To watch the full public lecture by Dr. Taylor Owen, click here.

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Cover to the book Disruptive Power
​by Dr. Taylor Owen

Select still from the film

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The animated film "Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age" is © Abhilasha Dewan, Better Creative and CIGI 2017
Client: Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
Artist: Abhilasha Dewan