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James Boyle • Misunderestimating openness – Open Future
In To Save Everything, Click Here, Evgeny Morozov implores the reader to “inquire into how Facebook mediates the very conditions of authenticity, sometimes by erecting new barriers and constraints but, more often, by destroying them.”
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Barry: Right, my essay examining Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four as a thriller, which I wrote at NPR’s invitation. The blog post examined the way NPR edited the essay, and how NPR’s edits revealed that fundamentally, NPR is an establishment media player. Joe: Your editor was pissed. Barry: He was. NPR called up Random House and complained about my bl
... See moreJack Kilborn • Be the Monkey - Ebooks and Self-Publishing: A Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath
À dix-neuf ans, une de ses créations l’a rendu frêle millionnaire. À l’abri, il s’est méfié peu à peu de son seul pays, Internet. Il a tenté de nous alerter : derrière le miroir aux alouettes se joue une bataille de tranchées pour ce qu’il reste de la liberté, de notre capacité à penser. L’économie de marché a massacré relations, nature et air libr
... See moreFlore Vasseur • Ce qu'il reste de nos rêves (LITTERATURE (NO) (French Edition)
George Howard • Web3 As An Interdependent Economy: A Conversation With Mat Dryhurst
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
sousveillance, the practice of watching powerful institutions from a ground-up perspective.
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
counter-democracy—taking civic action by monitoring existing institutions and holding them responsible—