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Evolution and computing can be described as counter-poles in contemporary American culture, as though that which transforms very fast required, to maintain some cosmic balance, a partner that changed correspondingly slowly. This is not just a felicitous figure: there are deeper grounds. Homo faber, in realizing the power to shape the experience of fellow producers [ READ MORE ]
ET no longer needs to phone home. He can call his friends in-network. A commodity-centered political economy, rather than a labor-centered one, would have to abandon one facet of a theory of capital: its tendency to generalize. Instead, it would start from the commodities themselves. From them it would produce a variegated map of their [ READ MORE ]
