# 20220108



## [[This Machine Kills]] notes

-   [[engineering]] is the tool of management


## [[Varn Vlog]] notes

-   off-white racism comes form a place of having to choose a side


## [[Tech Won’t Save Us]] notes

-   the [[novel]] emerged alongside capitalism as a means of commodifying literature
-   [[genre]] has been around since antiquity but the novel most easily lends itself to genre
-   Amazon requires authors to crank out publications as fast as possible, which has caused the literature world to be flooded with low quality literature