I quite enjoyed the This Is Hell chat with Malcolm Harris around his latest book, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. It seems to be a deep dive not just into how broken Silicon Valley is, but also how resilient this bubble community of global power brokerage is to any attempt at "fixing" it.
https://thisishell.com/interviews/1584-malcolm-harris
It's a hefty tome, though. Has anyone here read it or added it to their to-read pile? (Thoughts if so?)
@MLClark This is the next on my list:
Feudalism by Design: On Quinn Slobodian’s “Crack-Up Capitalism”
Scholars and critics use the terms “neofeudalism,” “technofeudalism,” and “refeudalization” to describe this situation, with its loss of public space, its prevailing sense of entrapment in relations of expropriation from which there’s no escape.
By Jodi Dean
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/feudalism-by-design-on-quinn-slobodians-crack-up-capitalism/
Book: