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A temporal alignment of the individual with the functioning of markets, two centuries in developing, has made irrelevant distinctions between work and non-work time, between public and private, between everyday life and organized institutional milieus.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
This all reflects more deeply that “capitalism” is a philosophy of human interaction and cooperation as relates to creating common pool resources of economic potential energy.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Bhopal remains a stark disclosure of the discordance between corporate globalization and the possibility of security and sustainability for human communities.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
The cultural critic Andrew Ross points out that this new model of artists/ workers—unlike Marx’s “industrial reserve army” of the unemployed, always available to keep the cost of labor low—creates a reserve volunteer army of people who will work for fun.56 Here, Ross asserts, we have not just a low-wage reserve industrial labor force, but a no-wage
... See moreMicki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
La fusion de l’infotech et de la biotech menace les valeurs modernes centrales que sont la liberté et l’égalité. Toute solution au défi technologique passe par une coopération mondiale. Le nationalisme, la religion et la culture divisent cependant l’humanité en camps hostiles au point de rendre très difficile la coopération à l’échelle planétaire.