"But while the cities become gentrified centers of a trust fund overclass, rural America is ever more entrenched in the “high tech, low life” character of cyberpunk futures."
If the slogan of the neoliberal left was exemplified with “You will own nothing and be happy”, the slogan of the post-neoliberal order is “you will have a 50 year mortgage on a former meth lab and be happy”.
"the slogan of 'fully automated luxury gay space communism' is instructive in this respect. It demands not the use of technique for the manifestation of spirit but the complete triumph of technique over spirit. . ."