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Crack-Up Capitalism w/ Quinn Slobodian

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How to Break the Tyranny of Existing Concepts

Siskai was being celebrated as a beacon of freedom by American libertarians, British libertarians. It was the statist prop for apartheid states PR. I wanted to make the book kind of more about examples of that than just Peter Teal building a mansion on an island and getting away from it all. Do we try to figure out how to rehumanize or insert different kinds of politics into the space of these zones? But it has its limitations because it suggests you still want to kind of escape democratic oversight.

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