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It was no thought or word that called culture into being, but a tool or a weapon. After the stone axe we needed song and story to remember innocence, to record effect – and so to describe the limits, to say what can be done without damage.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
New bureaucracy takes the form not of a specific, delimited function performed by particular workers but invades all areas of work, with the result that – as Kafka prophesied – workers become their own auditors, forced to assess their own performance.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
The complete sequence of major transitions in deep history runs like this:
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
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