Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992) with Nate

Unknown Reasons

English - April 25, 2021 14:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Memes. Are they propaganda or something worse? Nate and i talk about another Stephenson book as a way of avoiding finishing Anathem. Nate read Snow Crash years ago; I read it for the first time this month. We talk about language, rationality, and the internet.

Lisa Swanstrom - "Capsules and Nodes and Ruptures and Flows: Circulating Subjectivity in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash: [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40649585]

Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky Debate Human Nature & Power on Dutch TV (1971) [https://www.openculture.com/2019/06/michel-foucault-and-noam-chomsky-debate-human-nature-power-on-dutch-tv-1971.html]

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