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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Hardly Working
Total Refusal
Total Refusal’s meditation on the Non Playable characters that populate the 2018 Western game Red Dead Redemption 2.
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How To Disappear, Deserting battlefield
Total Refusal
You’ve played a FPS game before. But have you ever tried to desert, abandon the fight mid battle?
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Operation Jane Walk
Total Refusal
We are inside Tom Clancy’s The Division multiplayer game. Follow us on an architecture tour that uncovers the hypocrisies behind the making of the New York landscape.
POSTPOSTPOST
Al Hassan Elwan aka POSTPOSTPOST
Me & Also Me got so avant-garde that they literally teleported into the future.
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What the graphic designers wore
Gilbert
Gilbert excavates the remains of the canonical Euro male graphic designers.
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Neophiles versus Amnesiacs
Gilbert
After PageMaker the gatekeepers of graphic design went missing and a bloody territorial graphic arms race ensued.
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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
Syzygy
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Liquidation
The Institute of Queer Ecology
Capitalism hides its shape from us, so let’s give it one.
DOMESTIC/STANDARD
Nicholas Korody
The home is not where you go when you leave the factory, it is a factory.
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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
DIS
Is Universal Basic Income the left's utopian holy grail or an oligarch distraction?
Mincome
Whitney Mallett
For 3 short years no one lived in poverty.
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Obama Baroque
DIS
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.
Bob: A job is a job is a job
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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.
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
DIS
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.
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
DIS
Clio explains the basics of basic income.