Month: November 2019

I quite like a bit of utopianism.

Yeah maybe you shouldn’t write recipes for the cookshops of the future, but it’s nice to think about all the lovely cakes that will be available.

This article postulates that the solidarity economy is not helpful, because it isn’t revolutionary:

The Real Movement: Against The Solidarity Economy

It was triggered by this article suggesting a change to Marxist theory to incorporate the solidarity economy: https://regenerationmag.org/marxism-and-the-solidarity-economy/ (only scanned this but seems a bit.. bold. Marx misunderstood his own system, ima fixit)

Smash capitalism or erode it? Not exactly a new point of ideological contention.. interesting though to see solidarity economy explicitly critiqued.

Thoroughly enjoyed this episode of Rev Left Radio, totally on point for me. They take Douglas Rushkoff’s book Team Human as a jumping off point to talk about technology and social media and the ways in which it alienates rather than liberates, when appropriated by capitalism.

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/team-human-technology-markets-and-alienation

Really interesting article. It reiterates nicely one of the huge possibilities of social media: allowing previously silenced voices to be made public, and surfacing injustices previously hidden. I think it strangely ignores the centralisation of social media though, which essentially means it is mediated again. I think open web technologies can be a counter to that.

https://theintercept.com/2017/11/25/information-warfare-social-media-book-review-gaza/

All
Citizens
Are
Beautiful

Boom, I wrote 2020 words for first day of my first #NaNoWriMo!

Really enjoyed it… but can’t spend this much time on it for the next 29 days