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What we are dealing with now, however, is a deeper, far more pervasive, sense of exhaustion, of cultural and political sterility.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
The problem is that the journalist Thomas Friedman is still driving the bus. There is no penalty for opinion makers who harm society. And this is a very bad practice.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
homo speculans: “a politically disoriented, speculative subject who accepts rather than averts the future’s radical uncertainty.”
Max Read • Web3 as a "speculative community"
My central contention is that late capitalism not only accelerates the flow of capital, but also accelerates the rate at which subjects assume identities. Identity formation is inextricably linked to the urge to consume, and therefore the acceleration of capitalism necessitates an increase in the rate at which individuals assume and shed identities... See more
Jonah Peretti • Negations: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Third, and most important, Hardt and Negri maintain that with immaterial production all the dichotomies that characterized labor in the industrial era—productive/unproductive, production/reproduction, labor/leisure, waged/unwaged—vanish, so that labor ceases to be a source of differentiation and unequal power relations.8 In the place of the former
... See moreSilvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
Instead of fair wages and benefits, we have our personalities and stories and relationships, and we’d better learn to package them well for the internet in case we ever get in an accident while uninsured.