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Financialization, precarity and reactionary authoritarianism
By increasing global competition, the precariousness wrought by financialization has laid the foundations for reactionary authoritarianism around the world. By Max Haiven Source: ROAR Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life, released last month in paperback from Palgrave … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Geopolitics, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged austerity, Authoritarianism, capitalism, Corporate Globalization, Debt, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Financialization, Free Market, geopolitics, Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, Palgrave Macmillan, precariousness, Precarity
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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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Against meaninglessness and precarity: the crisis of work
By David Frayne Source: ROAR Magazine If work is vital for income, social inclusion and a sense of identity, then one of the most troubling contradictions of our time is that the centrality of work in our societies persists even when … Continue reading
Posted in culture, divide and conquer, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Benefits Street, capitalism, David Frayne, Dr. Adam Perkins, Income Inequality, Labor, Meaningless Work, Precariat, Precarity, technology, The Welfare Trait, Towards a Post-Work Society, unemployment, Work
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Will Robots Take Your Job?
By Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams Source: ROAR In recent months, a range of studies has warned of an imminent job apocalypse. The most famous of these—a study from Oxford—suggests that up to 47 percent of US jobs are at … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, Technology, war
Tagged automation, capitalism, Economics, Jobs, Labor, Mass Unemployment, Precarity, Productivity, Robotics, Robots, Silicon Valley, technology, UBI, unemployment, Universal Basic Income, Wages, Work
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Desultory Heroics 