Tara McMullin

The thing that makes “influencer” such an attractive option in those surveys is precisely this idea that it names the outcome rather than the actual work. We don’t actually have a good word for what it means to do that work. Partly this is because there are big differences between platforms (and within platforms, for that matter), and there is no... See more

American economy creates new jobs through organizing waste which is at best harmless and at worst poisonous and destructive.

The concept of subjectivity is derived from the philosophy

of Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Delueze & Guattari, Butler,

and others. Two related concepts are at the core of this the-

ory: the notion of subject positions, which are social roles

that people are thrust into, and subjectivity, which is the felt

experience and creative agency of individuals... See more

“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

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.

We rarely hear talk about preparing them for a life-time of making meaningful decisions. We don’t talk about how to prepare them for a world in which adults don’t always have the answers. We don’t talk about preparing them for a world where sometimes disobedience is the right choice, and just because something has ‘always been done like this’... See more