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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Three strategies to prevent young adult mental health troubles

Ashley Mowreader insidehighered.com

Higher Ed Under Capitalism

As I age, the more convinced I am that the concept of “normal” is the most toxic thing in our culture.

Angela Garbes • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

The Mythical Norm

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

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Philosophy

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

James Boggs • The American Revolution: Pages From a Negro Worker's Notebook

Labor Under Capitalism

From the editor's’ foreword to “The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook” by James Boggs, 1963

Inherent in the concept of moral contagion, then, is the idea that moral-emotion expressions are among the most powerful signals to the self and others about one’s identity. As such, they may be among the most functionally relevant forms of expressions in the context of moral and political discourse online, where moral and political identities are... See more

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Media & Culture and The Creator Economy

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

Death to “Time to Lean, Time to Clean”

Ashley Rodriguez bossbarista.substack.com

Labor Under Capitalism

I know what kind of work it takes to complete a book manuscript, and I want to do that work, but to arrive at the end of it and learn that what I should have been doing instead is flooding the zone on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok? That is fundamentally demoralizing.

Collin Brooke • Unfluence

Media & Culture and

Science Fiction and

I’ve been mainlining Le Guin’s non-fiction writing. It strikes me reading this passage again that she’s bumping up against Harry Frankfurt’s definition of “bullshit.” To paraphrase, that bullshit doesn’t concern itself with the truth—it’s objective is outside the realm of information. I don’t think fiction is bullshit, obviously. But now I’m curious about the qualities of fiction as they relate to the qualities of bullshit.