"The Californian Ideology, through its 'bizarre mish-mash of hippie anarchism and economic liberalism,' celebrated the rampant commodification of digital networks as a force for personal liberation. […] Drawing on various contemporary anti-capitalist currents, from the anti-globalization movement to Italian autonomism to Berlin's lively squatter movement, Nettime aimed to synthesize an alternative to the techno-determinist optimism oozing out of Silicon Valley." https://logicmag.io/commons/specter-in-the-machine/