“We are bored with this planet. It has seen better centuries, and the promise of better times to come eludes us. The possibilities of this world, in these times, seem dismal and dull. All it offers at best is spectacles of disintegration. Capitalism or barbarism, those are the choices. This is an epoch governed by blackmail: either more and more of the same, or the end times. Or so they say. We don’t buy it. It is time to start scheming on how to leave the twenty first century. The pessimists are right. Things can’t go on as they are. The optimists are also right. Another world is possible. The means are at our disposal. Our species-being is as builder of worlds.
- Mackenzie Wark, The Beach Beneath the Streets
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