a few pics of the highlights:

thanks, austin. holding onto these gentle wins in a sea of despair.

Here's to the next 19 & more reviews like this gem from Washington Informer: “Wells et al are a trio of unabashedly left-wing academics, the type of people who talk about ‘neoliberalism’ LIKE IT'S A BAD THING, and no conservative or centrist will change his entire worldview after reading this book.”

Above all, I am thankful to my co-authors and ongoing co-conspirators, Kafui and Declan, for nearly 19 yrs of thinking together.

"... Our focus on urban governance at the expense of the ‘politics of repurposing’ stems from this fear – namely that we accept the downgrading of mass politics when we need it most."

"... Perhaps some will accept [the Right's] changes not because they agree...but because their expectations of mass politics or the possibility of government action to solve intransient problems are so low....

"... Here, the legacy institutions are not taxis or taxi commissions, but the courts, governance, and the rule of law. Given this new moment, the dangers we outline in the book for cities could be applied to the state....

"Uber's disregard for the law, its opposition to regulation, its eagerness to wade into the culture war... & its antipathy to legacy institutions bear a striking resemblance to the approach that [Trump] has taken with/ federal institutions, public life, & the idea of governance...

In a book forum earlier this year, we reflected that our subtitle should have been something like "The Rise of Big Tech and the Fall of the State." We wrote:

Against a reign of domestic terror, I am grateful to so many of you for engaging with our longitudinal study about the lives of 40 Uber drivers in DC who shared, over the course of 5 years, the future that Big Tech is building --- and its costs.