Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Not to be to be a vulgar materialist or be too reductive, but all of that was completely absent from the conversation. Instead we were told it was a "revolutionary" moment, where these new tools would inevitably displace the old… — 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
