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For several beautiful years, Ruthie Gilmore and I were colleagues at the University of Southern California in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity. She’s brilliant and inspiring and here she tells us what is fundamentally, structurally wrong with capitalism. We cannot imagine a human future with it.
viet.thanh.nguyen.writerinstagram.comJane Jacobs’s Death and Life of Great American Cities
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
As Larry Summers and J. Bradford DeLong would write in August 2001, just a month after the file-sharing service Napster was taken down, ‘the most basic condition for economic efficiency … [is] that price equal marginal cost.’ They went on: ‘with information goods, the social and marginal cost of distribution is close to zero.’ This held true not on
... See moreAaron Bastani • Fully Automated Luxury Communism
The rise of algorithmic curation and AI-generated content has sent this into overdrive: On Spotify, music is detached from its human creators and flattened into algorithmically-generated playlists with hashtag-able labels like “Lo-Fi Chillwave Anime Vibes.”
404 Media • The Digital Packrat Manifesto
Urbanizing social reproduction: Rethinking the politics of care in ...
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Jonathan Beller, the film theorist, has argued that with the internet, ‘looking is labouring’. It is more precise to say that looking and being looked at is an irresistible inducement to labour.
Richard Seymour • The Twittering Machine
Her call to "redefine cool by championing our otherness" positions authentic self-expression as a political act. The personal rejection of algorithmic determinism becomes part of a larger movement reclaiming human agency in multiple domains.