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In Stack, an ambitious work blending software studies and political philosophy , technologist Benjamin Bratton argues for a critical theory of technology that resists the 'apocalyptic panic' of 'state surveillance, troll culture, and flash crashes,' as well as the 'messianic effervescence' of 'internet freedom'.

An open dialectic must be both nonmaterialist and nonidealist. With a single stroke, Castoriadis repudiates Marx's 'Hegelian mystification' of capitalist irrationality and his obfuscation of history's creative imagination: 'a revolutionary transcendence of Hegelian dialectics,' he purports irreverently, 'demands not that it be put back on its feet, but that, as a first step, its head be chopped off'.