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The Culture of the New Capitalism
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
We are losing the skills of cooperation needed to make a complex society work. — Richard Sennett, Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
As these technological innovations create economic disruptions, they also destabilize our value systems.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
The erosion of work being a key part of identity. Stability takes priority over wealth and passion. Fulfillment is found elsewhere.
Jonny Hawton • Scar Tissue - Predictions of the Long-Term Bahaviorial Scars of the 2020 Recession on Gen Z
The aim of all of these was to shift the culture so that citizens felt a shared responsibility for their city, while expanding their sense of what might be possible after a long period of depressed fatalism.