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founded on ideas of progress that are complicit with neo-liberal forms of governance,
Homi K. Bhabha • The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics)
Television had colonized important arenas of lived time, but neoliberalism demanded that there be a far more methodical extraction of value from television time, and in principle from every waking hour. In this sense 24/7 capitalism is not simply a continuous or sequential capture of attention, but also a dense layering of time, in which multiple o
... See moreJonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Third, this constant and pointless demand for financialization will create political and business opportunities to better facilitate it.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Rawls explicitly stated that “welfare state capitalism” could never fully achieve his principles of justice.[71] Rather, we need to reimagine our economic model in a more fundamental way—embracing a more universal approach to meeting basic needs, developing a comprehensive agenda to increase earnings and share society’s wealth, and putting meaningf
... See moreDaniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

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

This is the challenge we need to tackle today: revisiting every function that was once performed by the Great Safety Net back when it worked so well. We need to imagine institutions to once again serve the three goals that we should all be obsessed with: making consumer demand steadier, increasing household income, and providing access to affordabl
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