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       "tags": [
         "computing"
       ]
+    },
+    {
+      "author": "Jenny Odell",
+      "quote": "Connection is a two-way street. If it's possible that we keep on another alive, it's also true that we're capable of keeping on another dead. ",
+      "citation": "Saving Time: Discovering A Life Beyond the Clock",
+      "link": "https://bookshop.org/a/92876/9780593242704",
+      "tags": [
+        "time",
+        "capitalism"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "author": "Jenny Odell",
+      "quote": "Maybe \"the point\" isn't to live more, in the literal sense of a longer or more productive life, but rather, to be *more alive* in any given moment -- a movement outward and across, rather than shooting  forward on a narrow, lonely track. ",
+      "citation": "Saving Time: Discovering A Life Beyond the Clock",
+      "link": "https://bookshop.org/a/92876/9780593242704",
+      "tags": [
+        "time",
+        "capitalism"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "author": "Jenny Odell",
+      "quote": "To demand leisure in the nineteenth century was also to ask a fundamental question about whether workers existed for capitalists or for themselves. How much of this one precious life was owed to capital? ",
+      "citation": "Saving Time: Discovering A Life Beyond the Clock",
+      "link": "https://bookshop.org/a/92876/9780593242704",
+      "tags": [
+        "time",
+        "capitalism"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "author": "Fred Moten",
+      "quote": "The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?",
+      "citation": "The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning \u0026 Black Study",
+      "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undercommons",
+      "tags": [
+        "solidarity",
+        "undercommons"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "author": "Jenny Odell",
+      "quote": "Plantation owners were some of the earliest users of what we would now call spreadsheets, producing preprinted work logs and conducting labor-timing experiments similar to the ones Taylor would become famous for many decades later. ",
+      "citation": "Saving Time: Discovering A Life Beyond the Clock",
+      "link": "https://bookshop.org/a/92876/9780593242704",
+      "tags": [
+        "spreadsheets",
+        "labor"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "author": "Hannah Arendt",
+      "quote": "The smallest act in the most limited circumstances bears the seed of the same boundlessness, because one deed, and sometimes one word, suffices to change every constellation.",
+      "citation": "The Human Condition",
+      "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Condition",
+      "tags": [
+        "political theory"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "author": "Benjamin J. Birkinbine",
+      "quote": "The commons, generally, and the digital commons, more specifically, can be understood as an alternative system of value that is emerging from within capitalism. At times, circuits of commons value can intersect with capital accumulation circuits.",
+      "citation": "Incorporating the Digital Commons: Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software",
+      "link": "https://bookshop.org/a/92876/9781912656424",
+      "tags": [
+        "commons",
+        "open source software",
+        "capitalism"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "author": "Benjamin J. Birkinbine",
+      "quote": "Furthermore, machinery has been used to supplement and supplant human labour, which drove members of the working class out of work and into unemployment. Anyone wishing to become employed again was forced to learn how to operate new machinery, which furthered the cycle of exploitation. Thus, a vicious cycle of technology development, unemployment, and re-education was implemented to constantly reinvigorate the productive process while demanding that labour constantly acquire new skills. ",
+      "citation": "Incorporating the Digital Commons: Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software",
+      "link": "https://bookshop.org/a/92876/9781912656424",
+      "tags": [
+        "commons",
+        "capitalism",
+        "labor"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "author": "Benjamin J. Birkinbine",
+      "quote": "As Christian Fuchs (2008) has observed, commons-based production is not truly possible until we have a commons-based society. Until that time, commons-based movements like FLOSS will be subjected to increasing corporate encroachment that threatens to abate, assimilate, or altogether annihilate progress toward alternative economic configurations. ",
+      "citation": "Incorporating the Digital Commons: Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software",
+      "link": "https://bookshop.org/a/92876/9781912656424",
+      "tags": [
+        "commons",
+        "capitalism",
+        "labor",
+        "production"
+      ]
     }
   ]
 }