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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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a technical understanding

[...] A technical understanding of machines like these is essential to understanding how to interrupt them, and any future left must be as technically fluent as it is politically fluent. In the end, what is required is an analysis of the automation trends that are restructuring production and circu…

—p.173 Building Power (155) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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a healthy media presence

It has already been hinted at in earlier chapters, but media organisations are an essential part of any emergent political ecology aimed at building a new hegemony. The tasks involved in such a strategy demand a healthy media presence – creating a new common language, giving voice to the people, na…

—p.164 Building Power (155) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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when the opponent falls

[...] With the Arab Spring, meanwhile, unity was forged through opposition to shared tyrannical opponents, bringing together a disparate series of groups. However, these recent experiences demonstrate that a unity built solely upon opposition tends to break down when the opponent falls.

—p.158 Building Power (155) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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