"Occasionally, financial speculation fastens onto transformational technologies that have the potential to create a genuinely new economy."

>"If the Biden administration were serious about helping workers to build power, it would push back against the Republican governors who are ending pandemic unemployment programs early."

>"What the pandemic has done to the arts"

"For the philosopher of “hyperobjects”—vast, unknowable things that are bigger than ourselves—the coronavirus is further proof that we live in a dark ecology."

"With VALENTIN Seehausen, JULIO Linares and BLANKA Vay, moderated by INTE Gloerich.  Saturday March 27, 2021 11.00am-11:45PM CET (online)Transcribed by Lara Luna Bartley ([email protected]"

"DEI (“diversity, equity, and inclusion”) practitioners share a worldview that workplaces can become more humane and just. They are rivals in a for-profit industry of their own making. Corporate America spends roughly $8 billion annually on _...Read More_

Long working hours kill more than 700,000 people per year, even as millions are unable to find enough work to survive. The irrationality of capitalism has a human price.

"A lack of support splits parents into warring factions. Here’s what could stop the fighting."

"Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always _...Read More_

"The competing demands of work and motherhood have some white-collar women choosing part-time work—and loving it."

"The welfare state wasn’t created by enlightened dialogue or “sensible” moderate politics. It was a concession won by workers against bosses through decades of struggle."

"Samuel Marion explores the politics of American Outdoor lifestyle brands in an essay accompanying his browser-based work Ours, presented as a part of Rhizome and the New Museum's First Look series."

"Reports of the pandemic heralding the demise of American power have proved greatly exaggerated."