Tara McMullin

@taramcmullin

Writer, podcaster, and producer baffled by the absurdity of neoliberal capitalism. Autistic feminist. Aspiring independent scholar. Amateur baker. Host of the What Works podcast and author of a book of the same name.

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Savior Complex is a slyly simplistic title.

Savior Complex Doubles Down

Media & Culture

Although repetition is necessary, practice isn’t just repetition. When we practice, we do two things: we isolate a technique for study, and we engage with difficulty.

Why Write in Form? by Rebecca Hazelton | Poetry Foundation

Media & Culture

When metaphor invades decolonization, it kills the v ery possibility of decolonization; it recenters whiteness, it resettles theory, it extends innocence to the settler, it entertains a settler future. Decolonize (a verb) and decolonization (a noun) cannot easily be grafted onto pre -existing discourses/frame works, even if they are critical, even... See more

Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang • "Decolonization is not a metaphor"

Higher Ed Under Capitalism and Indigenous Perspectives

From “Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Eve Turk and K. Wayne Yang

Already a fourth of the adults actually employed in the US are paid wages lower than would lift them above the official poverty line – and so a fifth of American children live in poverty. Almost half of employed adults in this country are eligible for food stamps (most of those who are eligible don’t apply). The market in labour has broken down,... See more

James Livingston • What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? – James Livingston | Aeon Essays

Economics and Labor Under Capitalism

And if communities are spaces for belonging, cohorts are spaces for becoming.

Brian Dell • LF11 - Cohort Futures

Community Design

Just a moment...

Bonnie Burstow journals.sagepub.com

Emotions @ Work

"Toward a Radical Understanding of Trauma and Trauma Work" by Bonnie Burstow:: https://www.academia.edu/download/35938648/burstow2003_radicaltraumawork.pdf

Media & Culture

According to Asana’s Anatomy of Work Index, which surveyed over 10,000 knowledge workers from around the globe, the average person only spends about a quarter of their time on skills-based work—like coding, designing, or creating marketing campaigns—and another 13% on strategic planning. The remaining 60% of their day is spent communicating about... See more

Asana • The Way We Work Isn't Working [2023] • Asana

Labor Under Capitalism

Science Fiction and

I’ve been mainlining Le Guin’s non-fiction writing. It strikes me reading this passage again that she’s bumping up against Harry Frankfurt’s definition of “bullshit.” To paraphrase, that bullshit doesn’t concern itself with the truth—it’s objective is outside the realm of information. I don’t think fiction is bullshit, obviously. But now I’m curious about the qualities of fiction as they relate to the qualities of bullshit.