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Communicating Democratic Ideals Through Art | Charlotte Kent and Fred Turner

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The Social and Political Discourse of Technology

It seems as if that fervor that people bring to technology has been shifted away from the larger sort of social and political discourse. What's intriguing to me is not the allegiance that people have for particular technologies or systems, but how those systems channel individual creativity into genre terms set by commercial enterprises. I think we inhabit a world where the cultural incentives for self-expression and the commercial incentives for harnessing, mapping and reselling individual expression have become united. It's a kind of a mode of control.

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