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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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

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

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

Death to “Time to Lean, Time to Clean”

Ashley Rodriguez bossbarista.substack.com

Labor Under Capitalism

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The article critiques prevailing paradigms of digital literacy, proposing a consciousness model rooted in media ecology to address the structural biases of digital communication technologies that hinder sustainability efforts.

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Media & Culture

The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently. -David Graeber

Worldbuilding

Because here is the thing: every bit of communication to a group of people is ripe for misunderstanding. But the true delusion exists when we pretend like it isn’t. Even if we have been on the other side of the dynamic many times before, misunderstanding things.

Elise Granata • How to Keep Your Cool When Misunderstood By Entire Groups of People

Community

I believe that fandom is a wonderful and vital organ of contemporary culture, without which that culture ultimately stagnates, atrophies and dies. At the same time, I’m sure that fandom is sometimes a grotesque blight that poisons the society surrounding it with its mean-spirited obsessions and ridiculous, unearned sense of entitlement.

Media & Culture and Fandom & Capitalism

Alan Moore in The Guardian

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

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Emotions @ Work