david on poetic techs

david graeber on poetic technologies ness

via poetic technologies ness page:

“By poetic technologies I refer to the use of rational and technical means to bring wild fantasies to reality. Poetic technologies, so understood, are as old as civilization.” — David Graeber

via nika dubrovsky quote tweet [https://x.com/nikadubrovsky/status/2055278676992737668?s=20]:

@davidgraeber And here’s David Graeber’s two cents on this.

poetic technologies are when rational planning an dcureaucracy end up realizing wild, seemingly impossible fantasies – david graeber

quoted for this tweet [https://x.com/jacobin/status/2055022841003696199?s=20]:

Even supercomputers won’t solve the problems inherent to central planning. But that doesn’t mean we don’t need to replace capitalism with something better: http://jacobin.com/2026/05/central-planning-soviet-union-socialism

title of article: Socialism Has a Future. Central Planning Doesn’t

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