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Douglas Ruskhkoff, the Survival of the Richest and... the Battle of Endor?

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Capitalism and the Internet

For a long time I blamed capitalism for technologies woes to say that you know the internet kind of sold out to the mob. But as I worked on it, I realized it's not just capital capitalism dovetail perfectly with digital technologies ability to go abstract and to again go meta. And so there is an indictment of capitalism that we would expect from a Marxist media theory. In the book you illustrated this by telling the story that you got mugged in Park slope which is not something I knew.

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