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"Mind uploading: As the technology required to scan and map human brain processes improves, some..." 23 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
“Mind uploading: As the technology required to scan and map human brain processes improves, some believe it will one day be possible to upload human minds on to computers. With sufficient computer pow...
"Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives..." 23 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
“Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed.” - On the Phenomenon of...
"What is debt, after all, but the promise of future productivity? Saying that global debt levels keep..." 23 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
“What is debt, after all, but the promise of future productivity? Saying that global debt levels keep rising is simply another way of saying that, as a collectivity, human beings are promising each ot...
"Some economists estimate that a quarter of the American population is now engaged in “guard labor”..." 23 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
“Some economists estimate that a quarter of the American population is now engaged in “guard labor” of one sort or another—defending property, supervising work, or otherwise keeping their fellow Ameri...
"The problem was that since those rules of engagement ensured that thousands of women, children, and..." 23 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
“The problem was that since those rules of engagement ensured that thousands of women, children, and old people would end up “collateral damage” in order to minimize deaths and injuries to U.S. soldie...
"Neoliberalism has always been wracked by a central paradox. It declares that economic imperatives..." 23 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
“Neoliberalism has always been wracked by a central paradox. It declares that economic imperatives are to take priority over all others. Politics itself is just a matter of creating the conditions for...
"One often hears that antiwar protests in the late sixties and early seventies were ultimately..." 23 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
“One often hears that antiwar protests in the late sixties and early seventies were ultimately failures, since they did not appreciably speed up the U.S. withdrawal from Indochina. But afterward, thos...
"Since the eighties, “freedom” has come to mean “the market,” and “the market” has come to be seen as..." 23 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
“Since the eighties, “freedom” has come to mean “the market,” and “the market” has come to be seen as identical with capitalism—even, ironically, in places like China, which had known sophisticated ma...
"Until 1968, most world revolutions really just introduced practical refinements: an expanded..." 23 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
“Until 1968, most world revolutions really just introduced practical refinements: an expanded franchise, universal primary education, the welfare state. The world revolution of 1968, in contrast—wheth...
"His fliers were apocalyptic: NEW YORK GETS AN IMAGINATION – OR IT DIES! His slogan was ‘No More..." 22 Aug 2013 | 03:54 am
“His fliers were apocalyptic: NEW YORK GETS AN IMAGINATION – OR IT DIES! His slogan was ‘No More Bullshit.’ On the campaign trail, when a student asked him what he would have done about all the snow t...
