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    Our Diminished Utopianism

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    by Alexis C. Madrigal Apr 21, 2014 2 minutes
    Source: David Dugan

    1. Astra Taylor's new book on what happened to the Internet, The People's Platform, looks really good.

    "I was struck by how ours is a diminished utopianism. It wasn’t that we would use these machines to free us from labor; it was that now in our stolen minutes after work

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