Strypey on Nostr: "There's a whole political economy that runs on symmetry of information as a form of ...

"There's a whole political economy that runs on symmetry of information as a form of control. It may even amount to a new kind of class relation.

Sure, there still a landlord class that owns the land under our feet and a capitalist class that owns the factories, but maybe now there's another kind of ruling class as well - one that owns neither of those things, but instead owns the vector along which information is gathered and used."

#McKenzieWark, 'Capital is Dead', 2019

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