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This Brand is Late Capitalism: A lifestyle writing tic outlives its usefulness.
"I CALL THEM “THIS THING IS LATE CAPITALISM” ESSAYS. There are several variations on this genre of lifestyle writing. They don’t always invoke the “late capitalism” phrase explicitly, but all offer a critique of a popular brand or product in terms of its relationship to the system. Some are formulated ...Read More
Against Quarantine: How responses to the new corona virus territorialize disease and capitalize on a virus.
"Measures other than quarantine have been found much more effective in preventing widespread contagion. In a lengthy review of the research on the comparative effectiveness of a number of measures (short of vaccines and antiviral drugs) to prevent the transmission of respiratory viruses—screening at entry ports, medical isolation, quarantine, social ...Read More
“The Housewife: (1) the erotics of subjective abandonment in housewife status, or the sexualization of dissociation I’m terming here “fucking like a Housewife”; (2) how trauma attaches to Her, and what tools are or could be made available for Her reckoning with it; and (3) to what extent such a
“To the final point, what I am also asking here is: Are trans women de facto alienated from these structures, or is there a path toward reimagining the Housewife beyond the bounds of cisness, whiteness, and subjection under late-capitalist variations on the family? In some sense, this is also a ...Read More
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“From its earliest days, Google urged employees to “act like owners” and pipe up in all manner of forums, from mailing lists to its meme generator to open-ended question-and-answer sessions with top executives, known as T.G.I.F. It was part of what it meant to be “Googley,” one of the company’s
Over the past year, however, Google has appeared to clamp down. It has gradually scaled back opportunities for employees to grill their bosses and imposed a set of workplace guidelines that forbid “a raging debate over politics or the latest news story.” It has tried to prevent workers from discussing ...Read More
"The normalization of surveillance by a range of widely adopted and readily available technologies have opened the way for insurance companies to insert themselves straight into our homes, cars, and bodies, thus gaining further abilities to assess our lifestyles and adjust our behaviors. In essence, they conflate a form of ...Read More
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Wondering if anyone has insights or predictions as to how this will work out. 10 billion dollars is a lot of money but also potentially useless depending on how it’s spent. My guess is it won’t be put toward facilitating any type of degrowth...
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…The unjust removal of Moms 4 Housing and their arrest demonstrate the ways that the paradigm of speculative growth privileges profit over the lives of displaced residents from “gentrifying” communities.
…MOVE emerged in Philadelphia’s Powelton Village after 1972. Drawn together as women and men fleeing lives of violent poverty as well as humdrum and tedious labor, adherents collectively committed to the path ordained by their founder and leader John Africa. MOVE members rejected growth, actively courting the destruction of what ...Read More
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Tokens (e.g. money, likes, Twitch emotes) are symbols of value, votes of approval, rewards for winning a game. And we can design new ones with new incentives.
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‘The only uncertainty is how long we’ll last’: a worst case scenario for the climate in 2050
Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac •
theguardian.com ↗︎
A worst case scenario for the climate in 2050
“The first thing that hits you is the air. In many places around the world, the air is hot, heavy and, depending on the day, clogged with particulate pollution. Your eyes often water. Your cough never seems to disappear. You think about some countries in Asia, where, out of consideration, ...Read More
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A best case scenario for the climate in 2050:
“It wasn’t the single solution we required, but the proliferation of trees bought us the time we needed to vanquish carbon emissions. When we started, it was purely practical, a tactic to combat climate crisis by relocating the carbon: the trees took carbon dioxide out of the air, released oxygen ...Read More
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Long before his murder spree, Whitey Bulger was dosed with LSD 50 times in the context of the MK-Ultra experiments. Nerd shit: this is how several of America’s most famous serial killers got started.
Mainstream reporting has all but confirmed that both the Unabomber (https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/378239/) and Charles Manson (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/book-charles-manson-cia-secret-history-1960s-tom-oneill-856651/amp/) were vets of the CIA’s famous mind control experiments.
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It is midway through February 2020 and a novel coronavirus (2019nCoV) is threatening to break out of containment in China. And I have a bad feeling about it.
Parchman Prison: Protest & Pain | Special Report
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"What changes when you stop reading news that’s written by trained professionals — written on the static and finite surface of paper, using a process that few can afford — and start reading news in an online setting (which creates contrasting conditions)?
It is not just the structure of the information we call news and the people who create it that changes — the area surrounding the news also changes. And this is where content-corrupting signals come into play."