Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people… — 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… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
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
One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
It's always the balance between the individual's subjective experience and the social structural condition. As individuals we have access to more than… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
think there's a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
As a citizen I might be well-behaved and have nothing salacious or radical about me, I might be a total bore, but… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
It's the same thing in a way with privacy. You can say "I'm not doing anything wrong, therefore this doesn't concern me,"… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
We haven't developed a progressive vocabulary. We say something is "public," but we just mean it's viewable online. Or we say it's… — 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
