This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.
If you work for an outlet or publication that’s pulling together an end-of-year book list, I’d love to get you a review copy of #OilBeach for consideration. Let me know! 🛢️ 🏖️ 📙
A Thanksgiving Tale: Altruistically Giving SAMs WE ARE
There once were two Sams (A & BF), into Effective Altruism (EA), a eugenics-rooted cult only altruistic to the chosen few. SBF's in jail on fraud, Sam A runs nonprofit, OpenAI, that is for profit, not open & makes tech that isn't artificial or intelligent. Sam A was fired for not being full on EA enough, but rehired--capitalism wins!
Scarcity: A History From the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis
A sweeping intellectual history of the concept of economic scarcity—its development across five hundred years of European thought and its decisive role in fostering the climate crisis.
📖 Ricardo Noronha published a paper on the political economy of the Portuguese Revolution, where he analyses “the plans and strategies devised to ensure a socialist transition in the semiperiphery of the capitalist world-system during the 1970s.”
How Will Capitalism End?
Essays on a Failing System
A major collection of essays that questions whether contemporary capitalism will end with a bang or a whimper—from a leading political economist and the author of Buying Time.
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like
Creatives: Would you like to better understand why writers & authors (+ musicians and artists) are being squeezed? The impact Amazon has had on the publishing industry, the chequered history of DRM, the dirt on copyright? How about 'how news got broken', 'why streaming doesn't pay' & what people in the creative industries can actually do about the current state of affairs? Highly recommend Choke Point Capitalism (by Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow) as a read. Please ask your local library to get it in too so more people can have access.
The opening of #FairPlay was intriguing, but only for that awkwardly amusing cunnilingus incident. I lost interest as soon it shifted to an oblivious hedge fund workplace drama and turned it off.
"yet Fair Play wants us to believe that the problems of high finance are the problems for women everywhere."
🗣 We’ve opened a call for papers for the workshop "The gains of their sorrow: Slavery, the slave trade, and the rise of capitalism in the other South", which we will host on 19 June 2024.
The workshop seeks to open a debate on bridges connecting research focused on the Middle Passage and the one focused on mines, plantations, urban jobs, etc.
Its now time to kick the story of capitalism off with a bang. Gunpowder did more than just change warfare. Its production and use completely transformed society, governance, and gave rise to one of the first modern industries. Nothing shows these changes better than the Ottoman Turks, the world's first gunpowder empire, and their 1453 CE conquest of Constantinople.
"The amount of work your work and life wants of you will always and forever exceed the amount you can do.
You cannot fight this.
It is also a gift.
Once you accept (or re-accept) that there is too much, it becomes easier to turn some things away. You may still feel grief or loss at the things you cannot do. You may feel guilt, especially if an institution or person benefits from you feeling that way. But accepting that you must leave some things undone shifts the problem from one of being not enough to one of being in a position to make choices. And even when those choices are coupled to difficult or prickly constraints, they are still choices."
Time for the Fall of the Google Empire (or at least major regs).
This DOJ case will be critical to going after other Big Tech.
"Google has worked tirelessly over the last 20 years to ensure its search engine is the default option for a host of mobile devices, wireless carriers and web browsers. The company has done this despite knowing it risked creating a monopoly--U.S. DOJ."