Read Max Roundup 6/12/2022

'Internet for the People,' 'You Can Live Forever,' Elon Musk is a bad poster

Jun 12, 2022

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Happy Sunday from the weekend team at Read Max, and a warm thank you to paying subscribers, who are surely the most intelligent and discerning browsers on the world wide web. If you missed it, this week’s free column was about a new book called Speculative Communities, and how the framework it provides can help us understand social media and web3:

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Web3 as a "speculative community"

Last winter, in an attempt to marshal some theoretical resources to understand what the fuck was going on with web3 and why all these people were buying cartoon animal art, I picked up a book called Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World…

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