236. Butterflies on History’s Collage (ft. Malcolm Harris)
This Machine Kills
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The Interminable Structure Agency Debate
I began this project with the fact that the railroad that brought the mass of capitalist anglers to California is the same railroad my classmates used to kill themselves. In a lot of ways I think there's a really easy but mistaken way to read Palo Alto which is yet another history of great men. But instead of one great man, Steve Jobs in a Walter Isaacson kind of way, it's a history of many great men throughout one place. And so if I'm focusing on workers and owners, it's because their relation is mutually co-constituative - they can't have one without the other.
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