> Maybe practice is more complicated, but "markets" conceal a lot of
> messy behavior under a shiny image of a self-adjusting machine.
I think Dwayne mentioned Bruce Sterling:
<http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/index-cat.html>
<http://www.deadmedia.org/modest-proposal.html>
"We need a book about the failures of media, the collapses of media, the supercessions of media, the strangulations of media, a book detailing all the freakish and hideous media mistakes that we should know enough now not to repeat, a book about media that have died on the barbed wire of technological advance, media that didn't make it, martyred media, dead media. THE HANDBOOK OF DEAD MEDIA. A naturalist's field guide for the communications paleontologist."
Best, Charles