Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
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Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
"LOVE LOVE LOVE your futorological brickbats! Love them! You are in fine company with Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary with these." -- Paulina Borsook
"Devoted to highly rhetorical nitpicking, but it is fun to read." -- Chris Mooney
"Rather close but correct reading." -- Evgeny Morozov
"Mean, but true." -- Annalee Newitz
"Dale Carrico's skewering of the salvific pretensions of Silicon Valley's soi disant savior/founders never disappoints." -- Frank Pasquale
"Pretty breathless, but I guess it had to be said." -- Bruce Sterling
"An essential reality check for those who are too entranced by transhumanism to notice the sordid reality behind the curtain." -- Charlie Stross
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This might be my favorite Wilde to date. Can you tell me the source? This would make a great intro to one of my dissertation chapters :)
It's from "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" -- possibly the most insanely quotable essay ever written.
I've never read that one! Why must you provide such good reading material when I'm supposed to be writing!
I teach the text all the time in my critical theory course at the Art Institute, it's a real kick, a nice pairing is with Valerie Solanas' SCUM manifesto. Both are available all over the web for free. Since they both oscillate between parody and earnestness and just crazy incendiary wit it's not not one can exactly "agree" with them... but it's like Burroughs for me: you finish the text feeling they've captured something about freedom that Mill and Dewey and Arendt and Chomsky and other sensible people never quite manage to convey, if you know what I mean.
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