How would our process of creation, innovation and discovery in a society look like if we actually assumed that there is more to generating knowledge than just inventing it in factory setings? And i'm afraid that with a very few exceptions, oft people like maybe raymond williams may be like some hungarians. Very few markis, theorists, have consistently thought about this problem because they ignore it because it doesn't have to do with production. That's what we want, you geet. Robert branner, and that's what it's all about. It's about cars. And it's about cars because historicalas been about cars. This is what happens to japan.
Featuring Evgeny Morozov on his essay "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason." Thinkers from the Marxist left all the way to the neoliberal and even neo-reactionary right are convinced that we’ve exited capitalism entirely and entered neo-feudalism. Morozov argues that our bleak moment is in fact still a thoroughly capitalist one.
Evgeny's essay: newleftreview.org/issues/ii133/articles/evgeny-morozov-critique-of-techno-feudal-reason
Evgeny's website: evgenymorozov.com
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