Affect as a Field of Struggle
Emotion is the fabric of our cultural thought and political action across the board, not just on the right. It’s also on the left. It’s a common language.
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Neoliberalism
Analyzing a Picture
In the end, breaking through cynism and apathy implies not only to feel something but also to react. Which means taking sides and understanding that the ecological disaster is about us as a bunch of people who have already figured out that something isn’t quite right.
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Neoliberalism’s Fatal Faith in Debt Fiction
“When Smith and Mill and the classical economists talked about ‘free’ markets, they meant an economy free of rent, free of interest, free of parasitism. Today in the United States, the whole idea is that a free market is free for the parasites.”
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Reinterpreting the Chinese Capital “Scramble” in Africa
“Africa is not just this blank slate and these big companies are coming in and buying up land and kicking out people. There are politics going on.”
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A Hunger Strike Against Rapacious Education “Reform”
Parents and community members show their commitment to a vision for an alternative to the authoritarian capitalist approach to public education.
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How the World Works, For Now
The system works by enforcing a very strict and irrational economic model on people and telling them that it’s for their own benefit. It’s hard to fight because the ideology is so strong, and backed by so many intelligent people,
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Violence, Humiliation, Spectacle, and Fascism
When we see the specter of fascism rising around what this guy is doing, then the stakes are much higher than simply calling him a loon.
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It’s More Than Just FIFA
“We’re seeing an elite degenerate so quickly. Now that there’s a little bit of evidence from soccer, we can see the way they all operate, the cash in the suitcases and all the rest of it. It’s delightful, actually.”
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Resistance in Azerbaijan
At least 33 human rights defenders, youth movement activists, bloggers, journalists and others have been jailed in the last year in Azerbaijan, where the UK-based oil group BP is the largest foreign investor.
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The Brutal Business of Bordering Europe
There is a very counterproductive type of border control being put in place across the rich world’s borders, on a global scale. It’s leading to a lot of suffering and misery. There are much better ways to organize globalization. We still haven’t even begun to look at that in a politically engaged manner in much of the rich world.
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