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Data governance and the new frontiers of resistance
The 21st century corporation is using algorithmic-based intelligence to accumulate data on a massive scale. Social movements need to grasp this change quickly. By Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami Source: ROAR Four centuries after the East India Company set the … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Inequality, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged algorithmic optimization, Amazon, artificial intelligence, Big Tech, capitalism, Commodification, Corporatization, corporatocracy, data capital, data dispossession, digital platforms, Dystopia, Economics, environment, Financialization, Global South, Intelligencification, intelligent corporation, Labor, Monopolies, neo-colonialism, Neoliberalism, Technocracy, technology, Uber, Wealth Concentration
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Identity Theft and the Body’s Disappearance
By Robert Bohm Source: The Hampton Institute “What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?” – Allen Ginsberg from his poem “ Howl “ Identity theft, at least the most familiar … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Empire, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged big data, capitalism, Commodification, Consumerism, culture, Identity theft, Jean Baudrillard, Personality, Philosophy, psychology, Socialization, society, Sociology, technology
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Wasted lives: The worldwide tragedy of youth suicide
Principles of goodness together with the golden seed of social justice – sharing – need to be the guiding ideals of a radically redesigned socio-economic paradigm. By Graham Peebles Source: Nation of Change The pressures of modern life are colossal; for … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Economics, education, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, media, Psychology, Recession, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Anxiety, Commodification, Consumerism, culture, depression, despair, Economics, Education, Hope, media, Mental Health, Poverty, Public Health, Social Media, society, suicide, unemployment
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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
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Environment, History, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Adam Smith, Animism, Anthropology, Capital, capitalism, Commodification, Cree, culture, environment, nature, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Progress, society, spirituality, technology, Value
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No Man’s Land
By Steven Stoll Source: Orion Magazine A chainlink fence topped with razor wire surrounds fourteen acres of thistle and grass at East Forty-First Street between Long Beach Avenue and South Alameda Street in Los Angeles. These two city blocks occupy … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Environment, History, Philosophy, Social Control, society
Tagged Adam Smith, capitalism, Commodification, Conservation, Economics, Enclosure, Endangered Species Act, ESA, Feudalism, Freedom, Friedrich Hayek, Ownership, Private Property, Property, Real Estate, South Central Farm, The Homestead Act
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Leviathan and Behemoth
By Chris Shaw Source: Center for a Stateless Society Introduction The capitalist economy has gone through another shock, and the potential for another, larger one is on the horizon. While it’s seemingly in its death throes, capitalism continues to fuel … Continue reading
Posted in anarchism, conditioning, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Labor, Law, Science, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged Anarchy, BRIC, capitalism, central banks, Commodification, Consumerism, Corporate Globalization, Corporate Hegemony, Corporate State, Labor, Libertarianism, Monopolies, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Regulatory System, Statism, Subsidies, Tariffs
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Breaking the chains: precarity in the Age of Anxiety
By Joseph Todd Source: RoarMag.org In our Age of Anxiety, society assaults us from every possible angle with an avalanche of uncertainty. How do we fight back under conditions of precarity? An Age of Anxiety is upon us, one where … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Labor, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, society, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged Anxiety, Commodification, Community, Consumerism, Debt, Dystopia, economic crisis, Economics, Education, Employment, Housing, Labor, Medicalization, Neoliberalism, Precariats, Quantified Self, Revolution, society, Spectacle, surveillance, technology, Work
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Inside the Belly of the Beast
The Manifold Crises Threatening Higher Education By Vince Chernak and Henry A. Giroux Source: Counterpunch When Western University president Amit Chakma’s jaw-dropping income was posted recently on the Sunshine list, it put a spotlight on the inequities and conflicts that … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corruption, culture, Economics, education, History, Philosophy, Social Control, society, Work
Tagged Commodification, Corporatization, Higher Education, Neo-Liberalism, privatization
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Desultory Heroics 