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?

DOMESTIC/STANDARD

Nicholas Korody

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

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Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang

Ada O'Higgins & Semiotext(e)

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

Mincome

Whitney Mallett

For 3 short years no one lived in poverty.

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Money with Babak Radboy

DIS

Babak Radboy explains the ruthlessness of capital to children.

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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.

What is Blockchain?

Simon Denny

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

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A Good Crisis

DIS

You wasted a good crisis.

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UBI: The Straight Truvada

Dis

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

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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.

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.

Bob: A job is a job is a job

Amalia Ulman

Bob goes to work.

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Universal Basic Income with Clio Chang

DIS

Clio explains the basics of basic income.

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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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Red Sourcebook

Ilana Harris-Babou

Tracing the racist legacy of land ownership.

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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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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.