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Stallman’s obsession with licenses

To weaken Stallman’s position, O’Reilly had to show that the free software movement was fighting a pointless, stupid war: the advent of the Internet made Stallman’s obsession with licenses obsolete. There was a fair amount of semantic manipulation at play here. For Stallman, licenses were never an …

—p.252 No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler The Meme Hustler: Tim O'Reilly's Crazy Talk (241) by Evgeny Morozov

catechism (en)

a summary of the principles of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers, used for the instruction of Christians

Thiel recognizes in Girard’s claim precisely the kind of catechism of faith that Silicon Valley has built so much of its success on

—p.108 What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley Desire (97) by Adrian Daub
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Articles (4)

Ready Player One Finds The Bleak Limits Of Nostalgia
Jeb Lund - The Concourse

Chasing Utopias
by Sam Gindin - Jacobin

Everything Is Embarrassing: On Loving The National
by Helena Fitzgerald - NYLON

Super Position
by David Graeber - The New Inquiry

Book chapters (43)

Introduction
by William H. Gass - The Recognitions

The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing
by David Foster Wallace - The David Foster Wallace Reader

Borderland
by Stathis Kouvelakis - New Left Review 110

Fear Factor
by Tom Carson - Power, Corruption, and Lies

Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style
by Richard Seymour - Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen

Society as Checkpoint
by n+1 - n+1 Issue 32: Bad Faith

Socialism for Realists
by Sam Gindin - Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3

The neoliberal revolution
by Stuart Hall - The Neoliberal Revolution

Project Runway
How to build a better failure. - Failure (Logic #5)

Perfection
by Sarah Manguso - The Paris Review Issue 233

Spadework
by Alyssa Battistoni - n+1 Issue 34: Head Case

E Unibus Pluram
by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

An Expanded Interview with David Foster Wallace
Larry McCaffery / 1993 - Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Notes on Trap
by Jesse McCarthy - n+1 Issue 32: Bad Faith

Cash/Consent
by Lorelei Lee - n+1 Issue 35: Savior Complex

Hype and Critique
by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann - Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction

Progressive neoliberalism versus reactionary populism: a Hobson's choice
by Nancy Fraser - The Great Regression

Socialize the Data Centres!
by Evgeny Morozov - New Left Review 91

Novels and Children
by Roland Barthes - Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

Freedom Isn't Free
by Wendy Liu - Failure (Logic #5)

Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed
by David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Authority and American Usage
by David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

§9
by David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

Marxist Supernanny
by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Two Weeks in the Capital
by Nicolás Medina Mora - n+1 Issue 30: Motherland

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me
An American family’s struggle for student loan redemption - The Baffler No. 40 - Forced Exposure

Who Works for the Workers?
by Gabriel Winant - n+1 Issue 26: Dirty Work

Old Ship
by Kristin Dombek - n+1 Issue 27: Deep End

The Myth of Sisyphus
by Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

The Semplica Girl Diaries
by George Saunders - Tenth of December

Octet
by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

§19
by David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

Religious Faith, Intellectual Responsibility and Romance
by Richard M. Rorty - Philosophy and Social Hope

§22
by David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

On millennials
by Gabriel Winant - n+1 Issue 30: Motherland

Schenectady
- Granta 148: Summer Fiction

Life Aboard the Rocket Ship: An Interview with an Anonymous Engineer
An engineer fails up, down, and sideways. - Failure (Logic #5)

Remember Who the Enemy Is
by Mark Fisher - K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

The Meme Hustler: Tim O'Reilly's Crazy Talk
by Evgeny Morozov - No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky
by David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

§24
by David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics
by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek - #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader

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