Comments on: Cities of Sand: Silicon Valley Corporate Subdivisions http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/10/08/cities-of-sand-silicon-valley-corporate-subdivisions/ We live in a cyborg society. Technology has infiltrated the most fundamental aspects of our lives: social organization, the body, even our self-concepts. This blog chronicles our new, augmented reality. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:21:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: The Network of Things to Come » Cyborgology http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/10/08/cities-of-sand-silicon-valley-corporate-subdivisions/#comment-47336 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:52:58 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=17227#comment-47336 […] campus life of the Silicon Valley brogrammer could be seen as a neoliberal fork of a thoroughly socialist project. Rockefeller Plaza was the […]

]]> By: In Their Words » Cyborgology http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/10/08/cities-of-sand-silicon-valley-corporate-subdivisions/#comment-40182 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 10:09:08 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=17227#comment-40182 […] “Anton Menlo not only encourages the dissolution of the work/play divide, it capitalizes on it” […]

]]> By: Ownership of the Commons in an Age of Divestment » Cyborgology http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/10/08/cities-of-sand-silicon-valley-corporate-subdivisions/#comment-40074 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:26:56 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=17227#comment-40074 […] insidiously, as Silicon Valley’s penchant for corporate subdivisions and campuses can attest, these companies are part and parcel of the divestment in publicly held goods and […]

]]> By: davidbanks http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/10/08/cities-of-sand-silicon-valley-corporate-subdivisions/#comment-39390 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 01:23:45 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=17227#comment-39390 Oh wow I didn’t know you went to Miami. I grew up in South Broward County.

The breeding was very intentional and I think the campuses of Silicon Valley are going to do just what you’re saying- they’re meant to be (this is the best term I can think of right now) “safe spaces” for a kind of post-political techno-utopia. If you’re immersed in it enough you’ll have to go out and evangelize it under the sheer force of what you see as the inevitability of the future you are complicit in bringing about.

]]> By: robinjames http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/10/08/cities-of-sand-silicon-valley-corporate-subdivisions/#comment-39386 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 23:51:57 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=17227#comment-39386 love love love this! Early in the article you use the term “breeding” to refer to the function of the Jeffersonian college campus. In part that’s literal–colleges are literally about the breeding of the next generation of whatever constituency that campus serves. At Princeton, it’s about the 1%, at Miami (where I went), it’s about middle-class technocrats, and so on. Might these corporate campuses also have a literal breeding function?

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