Comments on: Money makes singularity http://crookedtimber.org/2009/01/27/money-makes-singularity/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 27 May 2012 08:33:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Bill Gardner http://crookedtimber.org/2009/01/27/money-makes-singularity/comment-page-1/#comment-264516 Bill Gardner Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:24:47 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=9330#comment-264516 Wasn't it Lukacs who argued that the novel, as a literary form, arose as an expression of a certain kind of individual produced by capitalism? Which, in this fable, ended up consuming the individuals, and their novels with them. Wasn’t it Lukacs who argued that the novel, as a literary form, arose as an expression of a certain kind of individual produced by capitalism? Which, in this fable, ended up consuming the individuals, and their novels with them.

]]> By: Brad Holden http://crookedtimber.org/2009/01/27/money-makes-singularity/comment-page-1/#comment-264491 Brad Holden Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:16:42 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=9330#comment-264491 Henry and John Quiggin bring up my favorite parts about these books. The Singularity is coporations run amuck. Truly efficient markets and rational agents, which mere humans are hopelessly unable to compete with. Henry and John Quiggin bring up my favorite parts about these books. The Singularity is coporations run amuck. Truly efficient markets and rational agents, which mere humans are hopelessly unable to compete with.

]]> By: Henry http://crookedtimber.org/2009/01/27/money-makes-singularity/comment-page-1/#comment-264389 Henry Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:04:52 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=9330#comment-264389 The key quote here is on p. 240 of my edition. "You've got to wonder where the builders of that structure came from. And where they went. And whether they realized that the destiny of intelligent tool-using life was to be a stepping-stone in the evolution of corporate instruments." The key quote here is on p. 240 of my edition.

“You’ve got to wonder where the builders of that structure came from. And where they went. And whether they realized that the destiny of intelligent tool-using life was to be a stepping-stone in the evolution of corporate instruments.”

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