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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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7 years, 6 months ago

some of us are still Marxists

[...] Virtual Futures 96 was advertised as “an anti-disciplinary event” and “a conference in the post-humanities”. One session involved Nick Land “lying on the ground, croaking into a mic”, recalls Robin Mackay, while Mackay played jungle records in the background. “Some people were really appalled…

The Guardian Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in missing author
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the relationship between finance and the economy

“Leaving it to the finance experts” is a recipe for decline, because the success of the finance industry bears no inevitable relationship to the long-term health of the economy. Finance can be extractive or uplifting, narrowly short-termist or focused on the infrastructural and investment needs of …

—p.211 The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information Toward an Intelligible Society (189) by Frank Pasquale
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what are these salaries for?

[...] Above all, what are these giant salaries and bonuses really for? What value does society derive from the work that they theoretically compensate?

—p.199 Toward an Intelligible Society (189) by Frank Pasquale
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meekly submitting to technolibertarianism archive/dissertation

It is not helpful to have politicians across the political spectrum meekly submitting to this technolibertarianism—assuming that bureaucrats, and by extension themselves, are inherently incapable of influencing technical innovation. We must curb the tendency to reify the tech giants—to assume that …

—p.196 Toward an Intelligible Society (189) by Frank Pasquale
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credit and austerity

The importance of credit reputation grows as public assistance shrinks. Austerity promotes loans as a lifeline for an insecure precariat. Students who once earned state scholarships are now earning profits for government or private lenders. In our “market state” and “ownership society,” _private cr…

—p.191 Toward an Intelligible Society (189) by Frank Pasquale