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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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digitisation and commodification archive/dissertation

Digitization takes place along with the process of commodification or the transformation of use to exchange or market value. The expansion of the commodity form provides what amounts to the material embodiment for digitization. It is used first and foremost to expand the commodification of informat…

—p.156 The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace From Ground Zero to Cyberspace and Back Again (141) by Vincent Mosco
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looking at the history of technology archive/dissertation

Looking at the history of technology literally puts us in our place by suggesting that rather than ending time, space, and social relations as we have known them, the rise of cyberspace amounts to just another in a series of interesting, but ultimately banal exercises in the extension of human tool…

—p.119 When Old Myths Were New: The Ever-Ending Story (117) by Vincent Mosco
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myths also mask the continuities archive/dissertation

[...] Even as myths of cyberspace reveal the unique power that people attribute to this age, these myths also mask the continuities that make the power we observe today, for example in the global market and in globe-spanning companies like Microsoft and IBM, very much a deepening and extension of o…

—p.83 Cyberspace and the End of History (55) by Vincent Mosco