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 aspect ratio of our lives has changed. By narrowing our field of view, cutting off our peripheral vision, the phone doesn’t just remove us from space and provoke a sense of claustrophobia. It isolates us.

Nicholas Carr • Out of the Landscape, into the Portrait

Media & Culture and The Creator Economy

“Toward a phenomenology of the phone”

Empathy depends on a cool head as much as a warm heart | Aeon Essays

Maria Konnikova aeon.co

On Empathy

Indeed, the literature on love and happiness at work is remarkable for its insistence on the identity of interests that will be generated, that both employers and employees will profit equally from its recipes for emotional reform and affective discipline. In what is perhaps a way to make good on the claim about mutual advantage, the health benefit... See more

Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work

Emotions @ Work

Principles

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Broken Links

Status and Relatedness are stress/reward triggers and Attachment is a core human need. The exclusive "we" may reward Status for the ingroup members, but it threatens Status for the outgroup – especially those that want to belong. For outgroup members, the exclusive "we" meddles with the sense of Relatedness and creates insecure Attachment. Those... See more

Dr. Laura McHale • The politics of pronouns | BPS

Media & Culture and Linguistics

Asymmetry (part 1)

Collin Brooke open.substack.com

Media & Culture and Labor Under Capitalism

Collin Brooke

Moving Forward

Anab Jain, in Do Interesting by Russell Davies

It is often only in the interludes that we come to realise just how much our busy lives are an active conspiracy against the very things that supposedly give our existence a deeper sense of meaning and purpose.

David J Siegel • Modern Life Subjects Us to All-Consuming Demands. That’s Why We Should Reflect on What It Means to Step Away From It All

Labor Under Capitalism and Finding Meaning

View of Errand Runners of Digital Platform Capitalism: The Errand Economy as a Contribution to the Discussion on the Gig Economy | tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal...

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Labor Under Capitalism and The Creator Economy

“The gig economy, regardless of workers’ competence, undermines workers’ rights, and makes every job cheap and precarious. Thus, an errand economy can be defined as the process of transforming all workers, regardless of skill level, into people who do the footwork, gruntwork, legwork, and odd jobs under a newly formed working regime.”