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Sci-Fi and the Politics of the Future: An Interview with Steven Shaviro featuring Acid Horizon

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Debt Is a Remarkable Technology and Discipline

In Foucault's Peter society debt is a remarkable technology and discipline yeah I mean definitely. William Barrows in one of his later books Cities of Red and I he talks about how 18th century writers would try to write themselves out of debt like the only thing you could do to make money was to write so you can pay off your debts. "I want to flip that and be like well if the Department of Education should have made a much better bet than giving me thirty thousand dollars to study philosophy at Duquesne right"

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