“In our time, even the most seemingly transgressive visions of technology in everyday life invariably fall back to the familiar furniture of capital investment, surplus extraction and exploitation. We don't even speak of progress any longer, but rather of 'innovation.” — Adam Greenfield Copy Share Image
“And for those of us who are motivated by commitment to a specifically participatory politics of the commons, it’s not at all clear that any blockchain-based infrastructure can support the kind of flexible assemblies we imagine. I myself come from an intellectual tradition that insists that any appearance of the word “potential” needs to be greeted with skepticism. There is… — Adam Greenfield Copy Share
“Just as James Watt refused to license his steam engine, suppressing the development of that technology over the quarter century that elapsed between his… — Adam Greenfield Copy Share Image
“In our time, even the most seemingly transgressive visions of technology in everyday life invariably fall back to the familiar furniture of capital investment,… — Adam Greenfield Copy Share Image
“Its first postulate is that the contemporary urban environment is so complex and so vexatious in its demands that no group of ordinary, unaided… — Adam Greenfield Copy Share Image