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The Modern Renascence
by F. Melian Stawell
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Technological Sovereignty (P. Riemens)
“Who has not yet realized, after “Snowden” and his revelations, that our dear “cyberspace” is no longer in the hands of its users and, alas, has not been for a long time, but that it has become a high-risk space under heavy surveillance?” (P. Riemens)
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Little Fires Everywhere Readalikes
Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the…
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On homo economicus and the commons (J. Rowe)
“What is called ‘economics’ is really psychology on steroids…”
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DPLA and eBooks
“Discover 37,055,474 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States”
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Remarks on the ideas of Amartya Sen (T. Rogan)
“Moral economies are not neutral, given, unvarying or universal. They are contested and evolving. Each person is more than a cold calculator of rational utility. Societies aren’t just engines of prosperity. The challenge is to make non-economic norms affecting market conduct legible, to bring the moral economies amid which market economies and administrative states function into focus…” (T. Rogan)