Making Social Networks Antisocial
The more information you know about people, the more you can manipulate them. You can foment conflict all over the place. That’s really dangerous.
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Systems of Enclosure
Articles observing and analyzing the basic mode of domination involving control, hoarding, concealment, and mystification of information, wealth, and power.
Globalists Versus Chauvinists
So, which kind of authoritarian capitalism do you prefer?
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Death to Debt Culture!
Debt is a shared condition; it is probably the defining feature of American economic life today. We’ve been talking a lot about divisions between college educated and not, between middle class or professional workers and working class folks. Debt allows us to stop seeing those divisions.
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Manipulating Everything and Everyone
“Is this an ad or is it an article?”
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Who Gets to Live Long and Prosper?
If we do not take that power back from the people who have it now, they will find ways to maintain it, either in a post-scarcity world where they use things like intellectual property to maintain control, or in a world of more dire ecological crisis, in which they run away and hide while the rest of us die.
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Class Consciousness and Cultures of Resistance in Retail
Retail workers have to put their emotional selves on the line. There are unique stresses to the service environment, but those unique stresses do not negate the chances for worker solidarity and opposition to management.
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Democracy Has Ended in Brazil
“We’ve entered a new state of exception through an illegal impeachment process, and I don’t have very much hope that anything’s going to change by 2018. The only left candidate who has a chance of winning is Lula, and they’re going to try to arrest him or kill him before 2018.”
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Politics in Turkey: the Elites and the Streets
The more allies Erdoğan loses in his state apparatus, the more he has to rely on radical groups on the street to secure his power.
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The Awful Purgatory of Authoritarian Non-Consolidation
“I’m not even sure this can be called a system, because there aren’t very clear institutionalized rules for participation. It’s not just a lack of democratic channels of representation. The regime doesn’t have a clear social coalition of groups that have a vested interest in its presence or in its policies.”
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How We Got So Racist
The scientific revolution and the Enlightenment racialized and whitened freedom, civilization, rationality, and beauty.
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