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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
Springtime for Snowflakes: “Social Justice” and Its Postmodern Parentage
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“diagnostic inflation”—the slapping-on of more (and more, and more) clinical labels to pathologize everyday sadness and stress.
Work in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
“[C]alling fat people ‘obese’ medicalizes human diversity”48 and “Medicalizing diversity inspires a misplaced search for a ‘cure’ for naturally occurring difference,”49 Marilyn Wann tells us in the foreword to the Fat Studies Reader, echoing Foucault.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Angela Davis (1943–present) spent the next four decades opposing the racial discriminators who learned to hide their intent, denouncing those who promoted end-of-racism fairytales while advocating bipartisan tough-on-crime policies and a prison-industrial complex that engineered the mass incarceration, beatings, and killings of Black people by law
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The consequent claim, namely, that Zionism is the “monster” that fuels antisemitism, holds the Jews themselves accountable for prejudice against them. This recasting of Zionism as a causal factor of antisemitism, rather than an authentic Jewish response to it, is a uniquely leftist contribution to antisemitic doctrine. It is, moreover, intimately
... See moreBen Cohen • Some Of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism (The Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA) / Studies ... zum Antisemitismus Book 4)
onde a eugenia humana é usada para justificar experimentos grotescos que culminam em confinamento, esterilização, eutanásia e assassinato em massa.
Siddhartha Mukherjee • O gene: Uma história íntima (Portuguese Edition)
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