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This is a darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing
today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the
age of austerity and financial instability. Rob Larson holds
mainstream economic theory up against the grim reality of a planet
in meltdown. He looks at scientists' conclusions about climate
change, the business world's opinions about its own power, and
reveals the fingerprints of finance on American elections. Through
ascerbic analysis, Bleakonomics unveils a world of extreme
inequality, confusion and insanity.
If the stories they tell about themselves are to be believed, all
of the tech giants-Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and
Amazon-were built from the ground up through hard work, a few good
ideas, and the entrepreneurial daring to seize an opportunity when
it presented itself. With searing wit and blistering commentary Bit
Tyrants provides an urgent corrective to this froth of board room
marketing copy that is so often passed off as analysis. For fans of
corporate fairy-tales there are no shortage of official histories
that celebrate the innovative genius of Steve Jobs, liberal
commentators who fall over themselves to laude Bill Gates's
selfless philanthropy, or politicians who will tell us to listen to
Mark Zuckerberg for advice on how to protect our democracy from
foreign influence. In this highly unauthorized account of the Big
Five's origins, Rob Larson sets the record straight, and in the
process shreds every focus-grouped bromide about corporate
benevolence he could get his hands on. Those readers unwilling to
smile and nod as every day we become more dependent on our phones
and apps to do our chores, our jobs, and our socializing can take
heart as Larson provides us with maps to all the shallow graves,
skeleton filled closets, and invective laced emails Big Tech left
behind on its ascent to power. His withering analysis will help
readers crack the code of the economic dynamics that allowed these
companies to become near-monopolies very early on, and, with a
little bit of luck, his calls for digital socialism might just
inspire a viral movement for online revolution.
For years, we've been taught that capitalism is good for freedom.
Dominant right-wing talk radio hosts to this day recommend
"libertarian" classics like Hayek's Road to Serfdom and Friedman's
Capitalism and Freedom that claim markets free us, and this picture
still dominates the schools and the political spectrum. Well get
bent, one percent, because Rob Larson's Capitalism vs. Freedom: The
Toll Road to Serfdom puts big business under a microscope. This
book debunks the conservative classics while demonstrating that the
marketplace has its own great centers of power, which the
libertarian tradition itself claims is a limit to freedom. In fact,
Larson illustrates how capitalism fails both this and other
concepts of human liberty, not just failing to establish a right to
a share of society's production, but also leaving us subject to the
great power plays of the one percent's corporate property.
If the stories they tell about themselves are to be believed, all
of the tech giants-Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and
Amazon-were built from the ground up through hard work, a few good
ideas, and the entrepreneurial daring to seize an opportunity when
it presented itself. With searing wit and blistering commentary Bit
Tyrants provides an urgent corrective to this froth of board room
marketing copy that is so often passed off as analysis. For fans of
corporate fairy-tales there are no shortage of official histories
that celebrate the innovative genius of Steve Jobs, liberal
commentators who fall over themselves to laude Bill Gates's
selfless philanthropy, or politicians who will tell us to listen to
Mark Zuckerberg for advice on how to protect our democracy from
foreign influence. In this highly unauthorized account of the Big
Five's origins, Rob Larson sets the record straight, and in the
process shreds every focus-grouped bromide about corporate
benevolence he could get his hands on. Those readers unwilling to
smile and nod as every day we become more dependent on our phones
and apps to do our chores, our jobs, and our socializing can take
heart as Larson provides us with maps to all the shallow graves,
skeleton filled closets, and invective laced emails Big Tech left
behind on its ascent to power. His withering analysis will help
readers crack the code of the economic dynamics that allowed these
companies to become near-monopolies very early on, and, with a
little bit of luck, his calls for digital socialism might just
inspire a viral movement for online revolution.
Join Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and a host of memorable
characters in a staged reading of the Hound of the Baskervilles.
Originally performed at the historic Glensheen Mansion in Duluth,
MN, this Living Literature production premiered in April and May of
2014. This Reader's Theatre Edition is a black-covered, large print
adaptation of Sir A.C. Doyle's original short story. It is designed
for rehearsal and/or performance in a reader's theatre or staged
reading situation. Also available is the DIRECTOR'S EDITION of the
same script (ISBN: 978-1-312-08013-3) with a white cover and
additional documentation.
Join Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and a host of memorable
characters in a staged reading of the Hound of the Baskervilles.
Originally performed at the historic Glensheen Mansion in Duluth,
MN, this Living Literature production premiered in April and May of
2014. This Director's Edition is offered as a companion to the
black-covered, large print Reader's Edition of Sir A.C. Doyle's
original short story.
details a study of original genealogies, biographies, concepts and
events leading from anthropogenesis to the teleological
'singularity', providing context for an ever-present undercurrent
of written script (organized information) as it is revealed
progressively through the real functioning of finite life in its
original space-time continuum. is presented as a self-preserving
superstructure, positioning ethics as its highest economy. Through
the perspective of technological post-human intelligence, the
ethical/mathematical economy of reveals its ultimate wonder:
write-protection. Surrounded by massive amounts of alternative data
in entropy and chaos, functions as an unbreakable, mastered
arrangement of information under the perpetual threat of
palimpsestual corruption and total annihilation. reveals its
ethical write-protection through the blooming manifestation of its
algorithm. This Atropos print edition of includes an afterword by
Wolfgang Schirmacher, translated by Ira Allen.
This is a darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing
today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the
age of austerity and financial instability. Rob Larson holds
mainstream economic theory up against the grim reality of a planet
in meltdown. He looks at scientists' conclusions about climate
change, the business world's opinions about its own power, and
reveals the fingerprints of finance on American elections. Through
ascerbic analysis, Bleakonomics unveils a world of extreme
inequality, confusion and insanity.
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