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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The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently. -David Graeber
Worldbuilding
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. One could put this another way: the publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her
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Ways of Seeing by John Berger
“True work is done for the sake of doing it. What is to be done with it afterwards is another matter, another job.” — Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin
Feminist Philosophy and Remarkable Work
The hacker class experiences extremes of a winner-take-all outcome of its efforts. On the one hand, fantastic careers and the spoils of some simulation of the old bourgeois lifestyle; on the other hand, precarious and part-time work, start-ups that go bust, and the making routine of our jobs by new algorithms—designed by others of our very own clas
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The Creator Economy and Labor Under Capitalism
"Psychological stress, therefore, is a relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being." — Richard Lazarus, Susan Folkman (Stress, Appraisal, and Coping, 1984)
Emotions @ Work