Evgeny Morozov

Great new paper (via @syllabus_tweets) on how big consulting firms have profited from the pandemic [link] (paywalled alas)

Thread on Web3. In 1991 Albert O. Hirschman published a great book, The Rhetoric of Reaction, which outlined three common critical narratives in response to social change & social transformation. With Hirschman, we can identify three types of critiques of crypto/Web3... 1/6

Another great paper to hit my radar is this great *environmental* history of the Bank of America (!). I hope someone will write an equally detailed environmental history of Blackrock [link] (also via @syllabus_tweets)

There is a great new paper with the charming title of "Cyberpunk Victoria," which argues that the ascent of the British financial capitalism in the mid-19th (!) century was due to the mastery of (mostly human) [link] via @syllabus_tweets

This is such a great analysis of how the political economy behind Web3 actually drives it *towards* centralization and *away* from privacy. A spectacular job by @moxie