by Erik Kain on December 27, 2011
Freddie deBoer wants a better class of IP reform advocates. In a long response to Julian Sanchez, Freddie dismisses the current batch as “pro-piracy” and lays down a critique of the technofuturist crowd that basically writes them off as calloused advocates of artistic ruin and the decline of the artistic middle class. I think piracy [...]
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by Erik Kain on September 15, 2011
Like magic, fossil fuels have led to an increase in abundance. What happens when it all runs out? Yesterday I posted my review of Lev Grossman’s The Magician King at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen. I enjoyed the book a great deal. (Spoilers ahead.) In the book, magic is starting to go berserk. It’s not [...]
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