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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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

“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

To be competitive in this job market and to hold on to, let alone advance within, whatever job we might manage to land, we will need to adapt, in some way and to some degree, to the workplace-feeling rules and affective expectations that are increasingly being imposed up and down the labor hierarchy. Whether that means an employee will be required... See more

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

Labor Under Capitalism and Emotions @ Work

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

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

1) We care, even if we have trouble showing it

Expression doesn’t always come naturally to us, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. I had to make reminders to thank my people and highlight their work – otherwise I’d get lost in observing work and fail to recognize the worker.

The Life Autistic: Working for a Boss on the Spectrum

Autism @ Work

Definitions

Robin Sloan robinsloan.com

Labor Under Capitalism

Platform workers’ liminal status makes them much more vulnerable to exploitation. In the United States, most gig workers and creators are classified as “independent contractors,” a categorization the IRS defines as “people who offer their services to the general public” in an independent trade, business, or profession. In practical terms, this... See more

A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy

Labor Under Capitalism and The Creator Economy

How past trauma impacts emotional intelligence: Examining the connection

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Emotions @ 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

The Creator Economy and Labor Under Capitalism