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Capital


“Late capitalism” has the brilliant ability to seem like its getting better while it only gets worse, convincing you you have access to more, while making sure you have less. New forms of non-ownership, liberal politics, and chemical enhancement ecstatically and coercively create a world of ever increasing stratification and decreasing opportunity. If progress is a myth, what myths did we tell ourselves to progress to here? And, more importantly, what’s next?


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    The New Family

    Simon Dybbroe Møller

    What do people do all day? They work.

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    Money with Babak Radboy

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    Babak Radboy explains the ruthlessness of capital to children.

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    Syzygy

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    Meta’s self-betraying Super Bowl commercial explained.

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    Liquidation

    The Institute of Queer Ecology

    Capitalism hides its shape from us, so let’s give it one.

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    DOMESTIC/STANDARD

    Nicholas Korody

    The home is not where you go when you leave the factory, it is a factory. 

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    A Good Crisis

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    You wasted a good crisis.

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    Everyone is a Worker

    Simon Dybbroe Møller

    Do you have to wear a uniform? Or are you free to wear what you want?

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    A New Face in Hell

    Emily Allan & Leah Hennessey

    Cultural theorist Mark Fisher (RIP) vs. Mark E. Smith (RIP) from The Fall.

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    Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang

    Ada O'Higgins & Semiotext(e)

    Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism, durationally read by Nico Fuentes.

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    UBI: The Straight Truvada

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    Is Universal Basic Income the left's utopian holy grail or an oligarch distraction?

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    Mincome

    Whitney Mallett

    For 3 short years no one lived in poverty.

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    Obama Baroque

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    Gossip Girl here, you're one and only source into the scandals of financial capitalism.

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    Reparation Hardware

    Ilana Harris-Babou

    Furniture restoration tutorial and a proposal for the delivery of reparations to African-Americans.

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    Violence Entrepreneurs

    Derek G. Larson

    Neolib consumer culture explodes into a dark and anxious continuum from brand obsession to recreational warfare.

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    Dancing Online

    Riccardo Benassi

    Digital-music meets MDMA hangovers, police fines, and the ventilator beat of respiratory disease.

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    Bob: A job is a job is a job

    Amalia Ulman

    Bob goes to work.

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    Maya Binyam and Bail Bloc

    Hannah Black

    Posting bail is not just about pretrial freedom, but for ensuring freedom going forward.

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    Real Mass Entrepreneurship

    Simon Denny

    The entrepreneur is cast as a high-tech hero but may be latest victim of precarious labor.

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    Sianne Ngai

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    McKenzie Wark summons Sianne Ngai and considers a new set of aesthetic terms.

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    Grub Economics

    The Institute of Queer Ecology

    Capitalism forces us into a perpetual larval stage, an incessant need to consume and accumulate resources.

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    Building a New Road

    Simon Dybbroe Møller

    The abstraction of the infrastructure we rely on hides a history of work.

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    Water

    Simon Dybbroe Møller

    For some, water might barely get a thought even as it structures our existence.

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    What is Blockchain?

    Simon Denny

    Are networked nodes working together really the same as equal political participation?

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    Abandoned Factories

    Riccardo Benassi

    Today we dance in emptied out factories and warehouses, what role do these party-protests serve?

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    Seasonal Associate By Heike Geissler

    Ada O'Higgins & Semiotext(e)

    10,000 Words from Seasonal Associate, Heike Geissler's labor memoir for the Amazon Era.

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    Universal Basic Income with Clio Chang

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    Clio explains the basics of basic income.

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