Evgeny Morozov Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. ScottEvgeny MorozovPoor James C Scott: first, "Seeing Like a State" got embraced by the libertarians; now it has become a reference point for the crypto fanboys. Because nothing screams "anarcho-primitivism" than tokenizing everything that moves.
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Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology: From Adam Smith to Max Weber
Simon ClarkeEvgeny Morozov@FAnicker @FutureHpodcast And I never said Weber was a rational choice theorist (which is a crazy thing to say). I said his theory of action owes much to the Austrian tradition, which is not really a disputed point in historiography (e.g. Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology by Simon Clarke)
Paperback, 1991
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Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers Into Collaborators
Clay ShirkyEvgeny MorozovWeb3, DAOs, NFTs *might* seem to possess some radical potential only if you haven't wasted the 2000s listening to Clay Shirky on Web 2.0 as the age of "cognitive surplus," Yochai Benkler on p2p tech as an incubator of virtue & altruism, Kevin Kelly on literally on anything.
Paperback, 2011
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Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
Perry AndersonEvgeny Morozov@stefdelev and for claim about "decentralization" see Perry Anderson's Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (1974) handily summarized below. If you have any historiographical breakthroughs on means of subsistence/nature of sovereignty under feudalism, I'm all ears - preferably with sources https://t.co/aUsouxVD94
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Fictitious Capital: How Finance Is Appropriating Our Future
Cédric DurandEvgeny MorozovMy main engagement in the essay is with Cedric Durand's recent book on techno-feudalism. Comparing it to his previous book on fictitious capital, I remain unconvinced by his efforts to grasp Big Tech by marrying Marx and Veblen. 6/9
Hardcover, 2017
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New Left Review
Susan WatkinsEvgeny MorozovInteresting response to my critique of techno-feudalism latest New Left Review. Alas, it is so absorbed by the uniqueness of "cybernetic capitalism", it ignores pre-cybernetic business history, from statistical process control (Shewhart) to conglomerates https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii135/articles/timothy-erik-strom-capital-and-cybernetics
Paperback, 2021
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The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy
Albert O. HirschmanEvgeny MorozovThread 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
Paperback, 1991
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