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Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet by Trebor Scholz, Nathan Schneider
3 stars
Real democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive.
Here, for the first time in one volume, are some of …
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Uberworked and underpaid by Trebor Scholz
"This book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber and Amazon Mechanical Turk promise autonomy, choice, and …
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Anarchist Accounting by Anders Sandström
This book is about accounting in an alternative libertarian socialist economic system. It explores what information and transactions we need …
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Cybernetic Revolutionaries by Eden Medina
5 stars
Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment …
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Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek
4 stars
What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, …
Jamie says: This one is always recommended to me, but I haven't read it. I just picked up Muldoon's Platform Socialism, though, which I'm hoping has some more constructive advice and examples of more recent experiments and alternatives. I gather that Muldoon draws a lot from Smicek's work, too.
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Radical Friends by Ruth Catlow, Penny Rafferty
5 stars
Radical Friends brings together the leading voices in the DAO, NFT, crypto-art, Web3, and blockchain scene to unpack and elucidate …
