"Tieu’s script could be interpreted as a dramatized reading of what has of late become resurgent and divisive rhetoric within art discourse."

A lot of great insights in this piece. According to a recent Atlantic/Leger survey, no gap exists between people with college degrees and those without them on some of the hot topics most commonly associated with “wokeness."

"Landlords have made a fortune on climbing land values. What if land was held by the public instead?"

"Those of us with faint memories of the early internet may remember it making a different appeal: nobody needed to know who you were if you didn’t want them to. This memory is made all the fa"

The necessities of the continued extraction surplus value always led to ‘production of space’ depending on the necessities of capital accumulation and the interventions of state power. (...) The crypto-space is a cut. New spaces of _...Read More_

"I recently read David Graeber’s classic book, Bullshit Jobs, and as suspected, it was entertaining while being mind-blowingly enlightening. His anthropological knowledge, crowdsourced first-hand…"

>"In the 21st century, every life experience is a monetizable data point."The internet, we were told, would liberate us. It would democratize _...Read More_

The gist of Brenner and Wood’s thesis demonstrates that it is ultimately political conflict — and not abstract notions of human nature — that determine the structure of society.

"Portrait of the United States as a Developing Country from Boston Review. Dispelling myths of entrepreneurial exceptionalism, a _...Read More_

"Because if there’s a new ruling class, there are new subordinate classes. And maybe the class that produces information that it doesn’t own is a new kind of exploited class. Sometimes it _...Read More_