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In a capitalist society, he saw this reification as the result of the alienation of workers from the product of their work: the ‘general social form of labour appears as the property of a thing’; it is reified through the ‘fetishism of commodities’. Capitalist relations appear to protect individual freedom, but equality before the law is merely a
... See moreRaymond Wacks • Philosophy of Law
The retreat, rather, is best attributed to a combination of fear and uncertainty among those who enforce and interpret the laws—especially departments of government and federal judges.
Tim Wu • The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
The word reclamation is derived from the old French reclaimer, meaning “to call back the hawk which has been let fly.” Yes, to cause something of the wild to return when it is called.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
pour ceux qui gouvernent, la répression est toujours le résultat d’un calcul coût/avantage, qui ne doit pas trop « profiter » aux individus ciblés. En particulier, la crainte du « martyr », du « héros » et, plus concrètement, des usages militants et électoralistes7 de la répression politique traverse les problématiques punitives étatiques et
... See moreVanessa Codaccioni • Répression: L'État face aux contestations politiques (Petite encyclopédie critique) (French Edition)
Autrement dit, toujours présentée comme « réactive », la répression est aussi « proactive », guidée pour construire ses propres cibles et s’adaptant aux gestes criminalisés par les politiques ou les services de renseignements. Elle vise alors dans ce cas à concrétiser l’illégalisation de ce qui n’était auparavant pas punissable voire de ce qui
... See moreVanessa Codaccioni • Répression: L'État face aux contestations politiques (Petite encyclopédie critique) (French Edition)
Teresa Brennan coined the term “bioderegulation” to describe the brutal discrepencies between the temporal operation of deregulated markets and the intrinsic physical limitations of the humans required to conform to these demands.3
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Dread, in this context, is an innate fear of loss of security that intensifies as a woman progresses further beyond the Wall and with her diminishing capacity to reestablish that provisioning security with a new partner. In fact it’s exactly this dread that is the root source of the gynocentric laws that award women cash & prizes in a divorce
... See moreRollo Tomassi • The Rational Male
The main thrust of the counter-revolution has been either the elimination or the financialization of social arrangements that had previously supported many kinds of cooperative activity. Through the appropriation of public spaces and resources into the logic of the marketplace, individuals are dispossessed of many collective forms of mutual support
... See moreJonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
“This essay contends that recent changes in the global economy have increased the disposability of the labouring poor and the debt-driven consumption by the working classes in the developed world – leading to social and economic fragmentation between and within countries.” -
FASHIONING INEQUALITY THE SOCIOECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF FAST FASHION’S
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