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- adjective Exhibiting or pertaining to
hypercapitalism .
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Examples
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Every one of those protesters deserve credit for building a serious popular movement which did not riot, but which questioned the values of the hypercapitalist age in which we all, to some extent, collaborate.
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Taxi drivers and passengers in communist Cuba now enjoy freer markets for transit than their counterparts in hypercapitalist Las Vegas.
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Set about sixty years in the future, the novel sets up a post climate-crisis world divided into three spheres of influence: the Dispensation, a hypercapitalist, entertainment-obsessed culture centered in Los Angeles; the Aquis, a global environmentalist culture that uses Big Brotherish-techniques to influence its followers; and China, the only remaining nation-state.
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Set about sixty years in the future, the novel sets up a post climate-crisis world divided into three spheres of influence: the Dispensation, a hypercapitalist, entertainment-obsessed culture centered in Los Angeles; the Aquis, a global environmentalist culture that uses Big Brotherish-techniques to influence its followers; and China, the only remaining nation-state.
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Set about sixty years in the future, the novel sets up a post climate-crisis world divided into three spheres of influence: the Dispensation, a hypercapitalist, entertainment-obsessed culture centered in Los Angeles; the Aquis, a global environmentalist culture that uses Big Brotherish-techniques to influence its followers; and China, the only remaining nation-state.
The Sunday Salon: Bruce Sterling’s The Caryatids « Exile on Ninth Street 2009
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Taxi drivers and passengers in communist Cuba now enjoy freer markets for transit than their counterparts in hypercapitalist Las Vegas.
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Learning how the most successful people's movements of our lifetimes were hijacked by the hypercapitalist freemarketeers is just crushing.
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The hypercapitalist economy we've built isn't about deep, sustainable value creation.
Hypercapitalism and Open Source glyn moody 2008
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The linguistic and cultural affinity between Hong Kong and mainland China, coupled with the city's hypercapitalist economy, makes it an ideal environment to train managers for other posts abroad.
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See also Paul Virilio for a more focused exploration of *speed* as a dominant force of contemporary hypercapitalist life.
affect vs. feeling, states vs. war machines | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2007
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