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Most of the tech companies scattered about Cluj, but also Bucharest and other Romanian cities, are not from Silicon Valley per se (although plenty are); many are in fact based in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, and beyond. That said, they cumulatively serve as an alibi for Silicon Valle…

US empire helped engineer and then capitalize on the collapse of communism (though of course this had to do with a range of ­factors notwithstanding increased authoritarian rule, nationalism, and a shift away from the antifascist ideals that originally contoured the socialist proj­ect). Silicon Val…

[...] as Brenna Bhandar puts it, colonial encounters have long relied on the logics of private property in order to create cap­i­tal­ist markets, in turn producing racial regimes of owner­ship that haunt the pre­sent. Such confrontations have manifested “a conceptual apparatus in which justificatio…

[...] That said, ­there are plenty of ­others who are paid far less to engage in more menial tasks “­behind the curtain” of automation. Nevertheless, the dream of entrepreneurialism is strong. As Oana Mateescu writes, “With the professionalization of the hipster into the upster (which, in Cluj, sig…

Twenge has a wholly different theory than Shorter and Trivedi about the increase in anxiety , specifically when it comes to young adults. A 2010 study by Twenge and her colleagues found that a shift from intrinsic to more extrinsic goals has mirrored the increase of anxiety and depression among you…