A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work
Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite.
Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitaiist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms. — Book Promo @ goodreads
In academic and literary contexts, “-ism” serves as a contested, evolving concept that maps ideological networks; for example, Marxism-Leninism and fascism have been analyzed as sharing structural similarities despite opposing labels. Critics note that all theories, including positivism, function as “isms” that shape political subjects and historical interpretation.
You will find a profusion of ‘ism’s in the book many of them by the author, a Canadian academic, or the co-author a British academic. Both of them write with that leftist tone that you will recognize immediately. The massive number of footnotes will also identify the work of the academic if nothing else does.
Well, Donald Trump has been nicknamed Taco. Trump always caves or always chickens out. Sorry, that’s what it stands for, Taco. I thought of a new one, Trump Airbnb, always bluster and blather. He just talks. And for me, and I don’t think I’m alone in this, to say the least, I think most of the world is now accustomed to hearing him announce something whose relationship to what’s actually going on is purely coincidental.
He says what is useful in his mind at that moment to be saying. Whether it’s the truth or not, whether it’s consistent with what he said yesterday or the day before, does not bother him or doesn’t even figure. You know, that’s why it’s even becoming laughable, he says something, and his own Secretary of State or the Vice President or the representatives of Iran trot out, no, we didn’t say that. No, this is not agreed to, no. And when we listen to all of that, and by that time he’s on to the next version of this sort of game, I find it kind of empty. The factual freedom he has is wonderful. — Richard Wolff @ The Dollar Trap Is Breaking
The Lindsey Graham Timeline Does Not Work… He Died in Kyiv by Larry C. Johnson. If Larry is right I think they should have buried him there. As Clarence Darrow said “I never killed anyone, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure”.