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Loving certain analyses by Fisher here. Only thing holding me back from a 5 star rating at the moment is the, at times challenging, lecture-style writing here. Since Mark IS actually speaking to and with students.

Loving certain analyses by Fisher here, but the lecture-style reading is throwing me off a bit. Especially as Mark is interacting with his students.

His earnest belief in the existence of global periods as having a clear identity gives time this great sense of thickness which I have generally strayed from as an area scholar. Also his claim that some cultural eras are genuinely more transformative and better for progressive politics than others is refreshingly discriminating. Things could have been better and these possibly-better visions (Beatles) are recycled.

Onto lecture 2

Never thought of digital nomad/network state/sovereign individual/ bog standard neoliberal there-is-no-society as per Silicon Valley as a Cold War hangup. But now he’s pointed it out, and linked it with the apple ad, I cannot unsee it. The specter of USSR bureaucracy haunts Silicon Valley and its faint terrestrial imprint is Europe.