DCRC - Digital Cultures Research Centre

Digital Cultures Research Centre

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 Shirky, Huxley, Leisure and Marx.

There is a spectre haunting Clay Shirky's latest work. The use of the idea of cognitive surplus puts me in mind of the old futuristic / modernist ideas about a 'leisure society' where technological advances would create endless vistas of 'free time'.

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