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The A Files
wearethemeteor.com
The conditions of this task-based work exemplify the worst of digital labor: it is freelance, poorly paid, and highly informal. Images, texts, and annotated videos flash before the eyes of microwork laborers, each task thoroughly detached from the product that it builds toward. As Jones writes, this “thins the aperture of knowledge to a tiny sliver... See more
thebaffler.com • The Tyranny of the Task
Creators should organize into a series of cooperatively owned ventures. Some have already done this - notably Defector, Maximum Fun, and 404 Media. There are others. But there are so many more opportunities to do this. Everyone who has been laid off recently can reorganize into cooperative groups. They can create governing bodies for themselves and... See more
Why I left... - by Mia Lobel - Freelance Cafe
The treatment of labour as a calling became as characteristic of the modern worker as the corresponding attitude toward acquisition of the business man.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
Both characters are pursuing equal and opposite desires.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
He has black eyebrows and black hair on the back of his hands.
Harold Pinter • The Short Plays of Harold Pinter
His flaw is he’s a child in a man’s world; his want is justice. To get it he’s going to have to change – to become a man.