Brandon Marcus

In the SVC narrative, the state cannot deliver social progress and prosperity at the pace and scale attributed to private actors – and if it attempts

In this playbook, the goal is straightforward: hypergrowth-fueled VC-backed disrupters act in the zone of exception, transgressing the law if necessar

Like the enclosures movement that inaugurated modern capitalism, disruptive innovators seek to convert public goods and common wealth into private goo

The SVC is "an ideological and institutional formation through which repeated exceptions are rendered intelligible and stabilizable, and an unspoken p

The discipline of information literacy has always pushed back against this. Its foundational premise is that access to information should serve the pe

One of his more interesting sidelines was his critique of the ideas of copyright and patent. He believed attributing scientific discovery to a single

Information and attention: A century in which the key to human history is not how the economy grew, but rather how humans learned to give attention to

Murdoch suggests that the ego makes it difficult to properly attend to one another. We often fail to see others adequately because the ego gets in the