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Wendy’s 2024 Year in Books
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Wendy Liu
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Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
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2020
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Things: A Story of the Sixties and A Man Asleep:
"Things: A Story of the Sixties predates all those tiresome novels about corporate-culture ennui, Ballardian death of affect, and dehumanisation through advertising and leaves them weeping into their MaxPower V9 toasters-cum-dildos. What a heartbreaki"
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"an excellent social observation and reflection of women's dependence on men, and it accurately represented the emotional world of women. incredibly personal, enraging, powerful, and devastating all at the same time. de beauvoir delivered this book br"
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“what an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.” what does it mean to be a woman? simone de beauvoir brilliantly tackles this in three stories: “the age of discretion”, “the monologue”, and “the " Read more of this review » |
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“Creating derivative software to help brands better understand their customers seemed like a poor use of my limited time on this burning planet.”
― Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
― Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
“Our current understanding of entrepreneurship is deeply saturated in power-hungry capitalist greed, leading to undemocratic control of the technological infrastructure that underpins our lives — not to mention massively wasteful economic inequality. Whatever merits the existing system of private entrepreneurship may have had, we’re now brushing up against its limits, and it’s time to consider something new.”
― Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
― Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
“But I also believe that technology has greater potential than the mundane, profit-seeking ventures to which it has been relegated under the current system.”
― Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
― Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
“Higher taxes to bring down public debt would also put to rest the tawdry rhetoric according to which ‘we’ should not live at the expense of ‘our children’ – when the real problem is that the ‘better-off’ live at everyone else’s expense by largely avoiding the social costs involved in the upkeep of their hunting grounds.”
― Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
― Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
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