Being me Quote by Astra Taylor

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

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