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Universal public services: the power of decommodifying survival
One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition. Capitalism relies on maintaining an artificial scarcity of essential goods and services (like housing, healthcare, transport, etc), through processes of enclosure and commodification.
Crazy Town: Episode 68. How Boomer Politicians Found a Third Way to Phuck Over the Working Class
Show Notes Meet Bill Clinton, who converted the Democratic Party into slightly less loathsome neoliberals. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation. For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.
On planning and disaster: Notes from an earthquake
How disasters are baked into Turkey’s developmental model—and what kind of opposition could emerge out of the ruins of the earthquake It has been nearly two months since February 6th, when two consecutive earthquakes of 7.8 and 7.7 magnitudes originating in the towns of Maraş and Antep took place. The earthquake has had a devastating effect across a large geographical area near the Turkish-Syrian border, that spans the historic lands of Kurdistan and Turkey as well as Northern Syria and Rojava.
Review: Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care
By Burç Köstem, originally published by Marx & Philosophy March 31, 2021 Author: Giorgos Kallis Bibliographic information: Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2019. 168 pp., $14.00 pb ISBN: 9781503611559 If modernity was marked by an obsession around ‘man’ as a figure of finitude, as Foucault once suggested, much of contemporary ecological thinking seems shaped by a concern around planetary finitude.
Recommendation Systems as Technologies of the Self: Algorithmic Control and the Formation of Music Taste
Abbas Y and Dervin F (eds) (2009) Digital Technologies of the Self. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Google Scholar Anderson, PA (2015) Neo-muzak and the business of mood. Critical Inquiry 41(4): 811–840. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI Aycock, A (1995) Technologies of the self: Foucault and internet discourse. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 1(2): . DOI: doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.1995.tb00328.x. Google Scholar Bakardjieva, M, Gaden, G (2012) Web 2.0 technologies of the self.
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