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As economic anthropologist Jason Hickel has explained,“under capitalism, ‘growth’ is not about increasing production to meet human needs. It is about increasing production in order to extract and accumulate profit. That is the overriding objective.”
Current Affairs • Against Managerialism
And so, instead of just changing our narratives, we should learn to understand the perspectives that shape them. When we focus on our own stories, we live life as we already know it, but by loosening the grip that stories hold over our lives – by focusing on the perspectives of ourselves and others – we can begin opening ourselves up to other... See more
psyche.co • Your Life Is Not a Story: Why Narrative Thinking Holds You Back
“Just as the Black Death gave way to the enlightenment in Europe I was playing with this idea that climate change could give way to the delightenment.”
Tristan Zimmermann
Anu Gupta, Breaking Bias
According to data aggregated by Cargo Facts Consulting, Temu ships around 4,000 tonnes a day, Shein 5,000 tonnes, Alibaba.com 1,000 tonnes and TikTok 800 tonnes. That equates to around 108 Boeing 777 freighters a day, the consultancy said.
Focus: Rise of fast-fashion Shein, Temu roils global air cargo industry
The role of metaphor and narrative, as opposed to new theories or experiments, is too little recognised in discussions of the historian of science Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shifts, supposed (and contested) moments of dramatic change in science. All scientists know how to go about scrutinising a theory: you use it to formulate some testable hypothesis,... See more
Philip Ball • We need new metaphors that put life at the centre of biology | Aeon Essays
to make money as an artist, it’s not about what you DO, it’s about who you have to BECOME .