Thinking Quotes by Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor

I think somebody who is more self-reflective should ask why they personally aren’t going on that path. If amateurism is so great, why didn’t you stay one? You have to look at the larger economy, a backdrop of unemployment; it’s shitty out there.

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Unemployment

Astra Taylor

I was shocked when I tried to articulate this to someone who had posted the film and asked them to remove it for a few months, and I actually told them that after that they could put it back up and they were just completely unwilling to compromise – you’d think I was Rupert Murdoch or something.

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Thinking

Astra Taylor

One thing that’s important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It’s part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class – the intellectuals, the professors, the artists – and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.

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Astra Taylor

think there’s a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you can be an insurgent but also, ultimately, it’s paid for by advertising, when in fact advertising is totally retrograde. Now that’s an industry we should be disrupting, and maybe you disrupt it by funding public media. None of this is technological destiny; there are only social choices.

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Astra Taylor

We haven’t developed a progressive vocabulary. We say something is “public,” but we just mean it’s viewable online. Or we say it’s “open,” but we just mean it’s accessible. I would like for us to think about terms critically and maybe change our vocabulary a bit. What if pubic actually meant publicly-funded, or social meant socialized.

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Thinking Quotes by Astra Taylor

I think somebody who is more self-reflective should ask why they personally aren’t going on that path. If amateurism is so great, why didn’t you stay one? You have to look at the larger economy, a backdrop of unemployment; it’s shitty out there.

I was shocked when I tried to articulate this to someone who had posted the film and asked them to remove it for a few months, and I actually told them that after that they could put it back up and they were just completely unwilling to compromise – you’d think I was Rupert Murdoch or something.

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