Marc Andreessen developed Mosaic and is one of the angel investors in LinkedIn, Substack, Twitter, etc. Andreessen outlines the development of government censorship on Tech as well as the pressure on universities, and the public sphere to work in concert. This podcast was uploaded Sunday and is very pertinent to this discussion. Truth and reconciliation is on the table in this discussion.
Yes, truth and reconciliation. Not sure I've thought of Andreesen as a champion of intellectual freedom to this point, but I'm willing to give it a listen. Working in the public sphere with local or regional associations makes the most sense to me but if tech czars can help in good faith there as well, that's positive.
Thanks, Kathleen, for pointing out this review--very interesting. I hadn't read the Buschman book until recently and found it delving in a thoughtful way into issues arising in the 1980s and 1990s in the field, and some are still resonant, of course. I readily see some of the tensions within Bushman's arguments, but I think he deals with some of the deeper issues in the field that aren't often acknowledged, and for that reason, I appreciate what he attempted to do in the book.
I found it interesting that Buschman landed on Henry Giroux as a champion of the public purposes of democratic education and formation for citizenship and establishing a common grounding in, quite possibly, a shared reality. Some of us will recognize the Giroux of critical pedagogy, which of course--he was, and has been. I didn't attempt to explore that tension in this article and actually I recognize Giroux's contribution in that realm while also identifying some of the unfortunate directions that critical pedagogy can go in, say, information literacy instruction.
Great piece and insightful work on the "way forward" and "six big questions." While social justice may sit uneasily alongside technocracy, there are ways in which they may both be serving larger agendas such as the UN Agenda 2030.
An interesting discussion by Marc Andreessen with Lex Fridman at SPOTIFY might be of interest to this readers of this essay.
Thanks, Kathleen--I will listen.
Marc Andreessen developed Mosaic and is one of the angel investors in LinkedIn, Substack, Twitter, etc. Andreessen outlines the development of government censorship on Tech as well as the pressure on universities, and the public sphere to work in concert. This podcast was uploaded Sunday and is very pertinent to this discussion. Truth and reconciliation is on the table in this discussion.
Yes, truth and reconciliation. Not sure I've thought of Andreesen as a champion of intellectual freedom to this point, but I'm willing to give it a listen. Working in the public sphere with local or regional associations makes the most sense to me but if tech czars can help in good faith there as well, that's positive.
Glad to read a serious assessment of 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝑺𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆.
Here is a good review (open source) from when it was first published.
http://www.progressivelibrariansguild.org/PL/PL23/075.pdf
Thanks, Kathleen, for pointing out this review--very interesting. I hadn't read the Buschman book until recently and found it delving in a thoughtful way into issues arising in the 1980s and 1990s in the field, and some are still resonant, of course. I readily see some of the tensions within Bushman's arguments, but I think he deals with some of the deeper issues in the field that aren't often acknowledged, and for that reason, I appreciate what he attempted to do in the book.
I found it interesting that Buschman landed on Henry Giroux as a champion of the public purposes of democratic education and formation for citizenship and establishing a common grounding in, quite possibly, a shared reality. Some of us will recognize the Giroux of critical pedagogy, which of course--he was, and has been. I didn't attempt to explore that tension in this article and actually I recognize Giroux's contribution in that realm while also identifying some of the unfortunate directions that critical pedagogy can go in, say, information literacy instruction.
Andreessen discusses "The Ring of Power" metaphor.
Great piece and insightful work on the "way forward" and "six big questions." While social justice may sit uneasily alongside technocracy, there are ways in which they may both be serving larger agendas such as the UN Agenda 2030.