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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Browsing the internet used to be a hobby of mine. Ever since my dad got us a modem when I was around ten, I spent hours at a time just looking at different websites. The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now, despite how many more people use the internet, I usually end up at the same three or four websites, and I end up a... See more

Gita Jackson • For Love of God, Make Your Own Website - Aftermath

The Creator Economy and

Our Cohorts

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Infographic: 6 Guiding Principles To A Trauma-Informed Approach | CDC

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Emotions @ Work

Revolutions are thus planetary phenomena. But there is more. What they really do is transform basic assumptions about what politics is ultimately about. In the wake of a revolution, ideas that had been considered veritably lunatic fringe quickly become the accepted currency of debate.

David Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber

Philosophy

Episode 83: Standpoint Epistemology with Briana Toole — Overthink podcast

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Epistemology and Philosophy

To have a "standpoint" means to be able to not only experience the harms of a social or political system, but to recognize the ways in which that system interacts with one's identity. While "lived experience" can be personal and reasonably unreflective, standpoint epistemology is a position of knowing "earned" through intentional analysis.

Successful platforms do not just discover what consumers want — they produce the consumers and the forms of consumer desire that they need.

Rogers Brubaker • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents

The Creator Economy and Media & Culture

Stolen Glory

Kate Manne katemanne.substack.com

Feminist Philosophy and Gaslighting

There is a big difference between “We want to get this strike settled for the good of the US economy” and “We support the workers.”

Hamilton Nolan • Whose Fault Is It?

Labor Under Capitalism

If you’ve used all of your creative powers to come up with a cure for cancer and you want to follow a playbook for the FDA approval process, by all means, do that.

But it seems as if too often, people are going through the FDA approval process in hopes that it will lead them to the cure, metaphorically speaking.

Packy McCormick • Burn the Playbooks

Disillusioned