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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.

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the freedom in liberalism archive/dissertation

[...] For Fukuyama, the freedom in liberalism and the choice in politics do not include the freedom to choose to oppose the singularity of a global market system, even to the meager extent of opposing by strengthening the nation state, let alone by daring to choose something other than capitalism. …

—p.60 The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace Cyberspace and the End of History (55) by Vincent Mosco
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manufacturing cyberspace magic

Government plays an enormous role in manufacturing cyberspace magic because much of its legitimacy today is based on identification with this future wave. This is certainly understandable. The transfer of power from government to the private sector in the last 30 or so years and the spread of free …

—p.43 Myth and Cyberspace (17) by Vincent Mosco
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imperialism is not only territorial intervention archive/dissertation

[...] You're creating a global capitalism within which the American state and American capital have structural power.

The structural power comes from the fact that that the U.S. is still the dominant country in terms of technology. It's increasingly playing a crucial role in terms of what I rai…

—p.109 Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult Capitalist Crisis and Radical Renewal (105) by Sam Gindin