Issue #146 Life in Fifteen Gigabytes

Life in Fifteen Gigabytes

Bami Oke

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A 2.5" hard drive. License: CC BY-SA 3.0.

Issue #146
June 2024










Notes
1

McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard University Press, 2004).

2

Sharon Pruitt-Young, “Black TikTok Creators Are On Strike To Protest A Lack Of Credit For Their Work,” NPR, July 1, 2021 .

3

Cache McClay, “Why Black TikTok Creators Have Gone on Strike,” BBC News, July 15, 2021 .

4

Jessica Martel, “16 Ways to Make Money on TikTok in 2024,” Time, March 30, 2023 .

5

McClay, “Why Black TikTok Creators Have Gone on Strike.”

6

Martine J. van Bennekom et al., “A Case of Digital Hoarding,” BMJ Case Reports, vol. 2015 (January 2015) .

7

Sebastian Sevignani, “Surveillance, Classification, and Social Inequality in Informational Capitalism: The Relevance of Exploitation in the Context of Markets in Information,” Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 42, no. 1 (2017).

8

Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, vol. 1, 1st ed. (Penguin, 1976).

9

Lapavitsas, 228.

10

McClay, “Why Black TikTok Creators Have Gone on Strike.”

11

Sevignani, “Surveillance, Classification, and Social Inequality.”

12

Dallas W. Smythe, “Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism,” Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 1, no. 3 (December 30, 1977).

13

Smythe, “Communications.”

14

McKenzie Wark, Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? (Verso, 2019) 9.

15

Wark, Hacker Manifesto, thesis 126.

16

Sevignani, “Surveillance, Classification, and Social Inequality.”

17

Stuart Dredge, “Jay Z Aims to Topple Spotify with Music Streaming Service Tidal,” The Guardian, March 31, 2015 .

18

David Z. Morris, “Jay-Z Pulls Every Album from Spotify, Apple Music,” Fortune, April 8, 2017 .

19

Peter Kafka, “Why Did Jack Dorsey Buy Tidal, Jay-Z’s Failed Music Service?” Vox, March 4, 2021 .

20

See .

21

“The Republic of South Africa Institutes Proceedings against the State of Israel and Requests the Court to Indicate Provisional Measures,” International Court of Justice, December 29, 2023.

22

See .

23

Alice Finney, “Minecraft Library Provides Gamers with ‘a Safe Haven for Press Freedom,’” Dezeen, August 17, 2021 .