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A Skeleton Key to the Alt Left
Source: the HipCrime Vocab Last time we looked at the differences between the “Left” as manifested in the mainstream political discourse and those of a number of authors, blogger and thinkers that I’ve (somewhat arbitrarily) lumped under the umbrella of … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Alt-Left, Alt-Right, capitalism, Classical Economics, Collapse, Communism, Corporate Globalization, economic crisis, Economics, environment, Eurocentric Modernism, Eurocentrism, Karl Polanyi, Modernism, Neoliberalism, Progress, Rajani Kanth
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Anxiety Dream
By Miya Tokumitsu A 1636 Dutch print depicts a tender domestic scene: a father in his nightdress walks to and fro, soothing a wakeful baby while mom gets some well-deserved sleep. The accompanying verse is equally sweet, assuring us that … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, Labor, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged capitalism, Economics, Efficiency, Insomnia, Public Health, Rest, sleep, Sleep Deprivation, technology, Work
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Radicle and Rhizomati: Notes from a Folk Herbalist
By Lisa Fazio Source: Resilience Hierarchy Power structures establish various systems to ensure the organisation of interrelationships and the distribution of resources throughout a group, community, or ecosystem. In human terms, these systems become our tribes, societies, and civilisations. The … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, Health, History, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged capitalism, Community, culture, Economics, Felix Guattari., Feudalism, Guilles Deleuze, healthcare, Herbal Medicine, Herbalism, Martin Shaw, Natural Medicine, Philosophy, Plant Medicine, politics, Radicle, Rhizome, society
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Luddism and Economic Ideology
Source: the HipCrime Vocab Smithsonian Magazine has a very good feature on the Luddites, well worth a read. There are many elements you just don’t read in many economic histories; for example, the 40-hour work week was not brought down … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, propaganda, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged 40 Hour Work Week, 5 Day Workweek, Adam Smith, automation, capitalism, Chris Dillow, economic inequality, Economics, Economism, James Kwak, Kirkpatrick Sale, Labor, London, Luddism, Luddites, Neoclassical Economics, Rebels Against the Future, Revolution, Robots, technology, Wealth Gap, Wealth of Nations, Work
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Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless
On negotiating the false idols of neoliberal self-care By Laurie Penny Source: The Baffler Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter. The slow collapse of the social contract is the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Audre Lorde, capitalism, Economics, Life Hacking, Life-Hacks, Neoliberalism, Occupy Movement, Precariat, Precarity, Self-Care, Self-Love, Wellness, Yoga
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Accelerating Capital: Completed Nihilism and The Indebted Man
By S.C. Hickman Source: Southern Nights In his book Data Trash (1993), Arthur Kroker writes that in the field of digital acceleration, more information means less meaning, because meaning slows info circulation. In the sphere of the digital economy, … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, media, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Alberto Toscano, Capital, capitalism, Debt, Deleuze, Dystopia, Economics, Franco Berardi, Guattari, Neoliberalism, Nietzsche, Nihilism, Philosophy
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Seeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
By Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk Source: Reality Sandwich It’s delicate confronting these priests of the golden bull They preach from the pulpit of the bottom line Their minds rustle with million dollar bills You say Silver burns a hole … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology
Tagged capitalism, Collective Unconscious, Colonialism, culture, Economics, Epigenetics, Extinction, Memes, Mimetics, Noosphere, Paul Levy, psychology, society, Spirit, technology, Wetiko
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I think therefore I am capital
By Jamie Goldrick Source: Adbusters In the worldview of the Cree, life is lived along a trail of experiences. Sharing experience with others is a result of the crossing of two life trails. Life is experienced as a tangled pattern … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Animism, Anthropology, Capital, capitalism, Commodification, Cree, culture, environment, nature, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Progress, society, spirituality, technology, Value
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