I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged. — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I mean look at all these acquisitions and mergers - WhatsApp and Oculus and et cetera. There's no way that you can… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I work for free all the time, as a writer but also as an activist. The decisions we have to make as… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Basically political economy - that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I think somebody who is more self-reflective should ask why they personally aren't going on that path. If amateurism is so great,… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“wealth and power are shifting to those who control the platforms on which all of us create, consume, and connect. The companies that provide… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-supported papers… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“Though it’s hard to believe now, newspapers were once the envy of the business world. Through the eighties and nineties, 20, 30, even 40… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“The rub is that over the intervening years we have somehow deceived ourselves into believing that this state of insecurity and inequity is a… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“Instead of distinct old and new media, what we have is a complex cultural ecosystem that spans the analog and digital, encompassing physical places… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized the tech… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
We've been criticizing these superficial aspects, like whether we are all more distracted. We really need to articulate a defense, a critique, that merges… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
