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 Creator Economy and

We need more than first responders to navigate crises and create change. Source: https://buildingmovement.org/blog/mapping-our-social-change-roles-in-times-of-crisis/

What distinguishes human economies is merely that they recognise that the chief business of any social system – or, indeed, of any system of the production and distribution of material goods – is the creation and mutual fashioning of human beings. Indeed, one could well argue that it’s only the emergence of commercial currencies that made it... See more

David Graeber • On social currencies and human economies: some notes on the violence of equivalence – David Graeber

Economics

We cannot really conceive of the problems that will arise when we start trying to build a free society. What now seem likely to be the thorniest problems might not be problems at all; others that never even occurred to us might prove devilishly difficult. There are innumerable X-factors.

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

Practical Utopia

How do we create a world where we are free to create for the love of it?

Kate Tyson (Strathmann) • The Space to Create

content as capital

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

Maria Konnikova aeon.co

On Empathy

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

Because at some level, the mandate to love your work and be happy with it has a very simple and straightforward rationale: the dictate to work more. Love and happiness, these management gurus explain, are endless reservoirs of energy, concentration, and motivation. How do we make ourselves happy and in love with our job? Here is a typical response:... See more

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

Emotions @ Work and Labor Under Capitalism

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

"Psychological stress, therefore, is a relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being." — Richard Lazarus, Susan Folkman (Stress, Appraisal, and Coping, 1984)

Emotions @ Work