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Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indebtedness, and democracy. The essays collected here reveal the range and depth of her thinking, with Taylor tackling the rising popularity of socialism, the problem of automation, the politics of listening, the possibility of rights for the natural and non-human world, the future of the university, the temporal...
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Sans tomber dans un scepticisme stérile, Démocratie.com critique les discours techno-utopiques des penseurs des nouveaux médias et des militants pour le libre accès. Astra Taylor rappelle que la démocratie n'est pas une émanation directe des technologies et que pour faire d'internet une véritable plateforme populaire, il faut créer les conditions d'une culture démocratique durable.
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Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Peter Singer's thoughts on the ethics of consumption are amplified against the backdrop of Fifth Avenue's posh boutiques. Michael Hardt...