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Rethinking Marxism, Volume 37, Issue 4 (2025)

by David Primrose

bookshelves: currently-reading, economics, politics

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Is Capitalism Now “Too Big to Fail, Too Monstrous to Survive”? A Symposium in Response to David Harvey, Edited by David Primrose and Zoe Sherman" — Aug 16, 2026 04:19PM

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International Journal of the Commons: Volume 19 - Issue 1 - 2025

by Frank van Laerhoven

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Global Studies Quarterly: Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026; Special Forum: Cybersecurity and the Future

by Brent J. Steele

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Cybersecurity and Futurity: The Politics of Imagination, Future-Making, and Hope
Sarah Backman and Fabio Cristiano

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Constructing the Future in and of Cyberbiosecurity: Cyber-Bio Convergence and (In)Security Imaginaries
Noran Shafik Fouad

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Useless Fiction? Beyond the Visual Crisis in Cyber(In)Security
Andreas I Graae and Jeppe T Jacobsen" — Aug 07, 2026 02:59PM

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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter

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Not only was it using a skillful rootkit to cloak itself and make it invisible to antivirus engines, it was using a shrewd zero-day exploit to propagate from machine to machine—an exploit that attacked a function so fundamental to the ...more

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“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: bravery

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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: reading

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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

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“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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