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The Culture of the New Capitalism
Our task is to earn money, spend it, and compete with one another to climb society’s ladder. Along the way, we express our personality and our vitality by making choices: these choices represent our power, and make us who we are. We pride ourselves on being self-reliant and liberated, the creators of our own destiny.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
In the early 1970s those seeking individual freedoms and social justice could make common cause in the face of what many saw as a common enemy. Powerful corporations in alliance with an interventionist state were seen to be running the world in individually oppressive and socially unjust ways. The Vietnam War was the most obvious catalyst for disco
... See moreDavid Harvey • A Brief History of Neoliberalism
As the individual experiences an ever-growing sense of acceleration provided by technological developments (new media and the “speeding up” of the infosphere) alongside a general decrease in security of past provisions and expectations (read: precarity, freelance positions, housing shortages, and increasing wealth disparities coexisting with rhetor... See more
Jess Henderson • Dude, where’s my 22nd century? – On the Burnout of Future Images
Keynes underestimated the many roles that work plays in our lives beyond our economic needs, but the question he raised was the right one: how will we organise liberated time in ways that are meaningful and satisfying? Will we see ever more refined subcultures of hedonism,
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible
Work, in other words, helps to tell us how to be. And changes in the shape of the workplace, in the shape of capitalism itself, have changed our expectations for what our lives will be like, for where and how we will find fulfillment.
Sarah Jaffe • Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Since it is now clear that a certain amount of stability is necessary for cultural vibrancy, the question to be asked is: how can this stability be provided, and by what agencies?