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While we still seem to be caught in the treacherous segue between stories, those cast as victims in old master narratives are writing themselves anew.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
boundaries of an antiblack world might, in other words, remain virtual (that is, immanent or imagined), yet one's paranoia is still a correct measure of
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Philip E. Agre
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Labor instead becomes a means to an end, not an avenue for flourishing but a transaction for survival. This is a grim human development, for no one wants to spend their days merely surviving.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
It is an attack on the cruel idea that work confers dignity and therefore that people who don’t work—the old, the disabled—lack value. On the contrary, dignity is intrinsic to all human beings, and in designing a work regime rigged for the profit of the few and the exhaustion of the many, we have failed to honor one another’s humanity.
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
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These youth are born into environments of state-sanctioned deprivation, or “organized abandonment,” as political geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls it.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
