My stock answer is always: what can we do? I believe this book presents the case that understanding derivative media is a crucial first step, followed by structural change at the level of media and finance reform at the very least. Taming and resisting capitalism are viable options. I think this book also suggests that the true scale of this problem, in tandem with the many other crises we face, necessitates broader, revolutionary transformation.

QUESTION: The author distinguishes between reformist and revolutionary responses — worth probing where the threshold between them lies.

Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, loc. 468