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robertogreco... economists part company with the ominous pictures of an overpopulated, starving world, prostrate before the throne of "competition," "individual initiative," "private property," or some other pseudo-god, and tell men in simple, straightforward language how they may combine, re-shape, or overcome the laws and utilize them as a blessing instead of enduring them as a burden and a curse.[13]
Much as Karl Marx drew radical implications from the ideas of the conservative Hegel, Nearing took the economic logic of his department head, Simon Patten, and made radical inferences about wealth and the distribution of income that his mentor had hesitated to draw.[14] He believed that unfettered wealth stifled initiative and impeded economic advancement, and hoped that progressive thinkers among the ownership class would come to realize the negative impact of economic parasitism and accept their civic duty of enlightened leadership.[15] Nearing outlined an economic republicanism based on "four basic democratic concepts—equality of opportunity, civic obligation, popular government, and human rights."[16]
While living in Arden in 1910, Nearing learned about The Landlord's Game, the forerunner of Monopoly, and taught it to his students. This use of the game as an instructional device led to its spread among colleges.[17]
But Nearing's aggressive social activism in the classroom and through the printed word brought him into conflict with his employers at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, resulting in his dismissal and his emergence as a cause célèbre of the American radical movement during the next decade. On the morning of June 16, 1915, Nearing's secretary telephoned him to report that a letter from the provost had arrived, saying that "as the term of your appointment as assistant professor of economics for 1914–1915 is about to expire, I am directed by the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to inform you that it will not be renewed."[18] Penn's board of trustees was heavily stacked with bankers, corporation lawyers, financiers, and corporation executives, and Nearing's writing had not gone unnoticed.[19] His tenuous situation had been exacerbated by an open letter to The North American in which he challenged the right wing evangelist Billy Sunday to apply the Gospel to the conditions of industrial capitalism, including "the railroad interests ... the traction company ... the manufacturers ... the vested interests."[20] Reaction to Nearing's dismissal from the academy was swift, with department head Patten and others issuing statements condemning the decision. Progressives in the Wharton School quickly compiled a summary of the facts of the case and sent it to 1500 newspapers, journals, and academics around the country.[21] Even conservatives in the faculty were deeply troubled since, as one Wharton professor observed, "the moment Nearing went, any conservative statement became but the spoken word of a 'kept' professor."[21] Conversely, some radicals felt vindicated in their belief in the conservative nature of the American academy. Socialist writer Upton Sinclair told Nearing in an open letter that "You do not belong in a university. You belong with us Socialists and free lances . ... Instead of addressing small numbers of college boys, you will be able to address large audiences of men."[22] Nearing's dismissal was retrospectively called by one historian "the most famous breach of academic freedom" of the era.[23]"]]>scottnearing history simpleliving economics academia academicfreedom politics socialism communism marxism activism highered highereducation upenn wharton pacifists vegetarians farming homesteading simplicity voluntarysimplicity radicalism radicalization asceticism rural dissidents dissidence thoreau us gandhi jesus christ karlmarx animals philosophy economists competition growth degrowth backtotheland backtothelandmovement coldwar left leftism ussr sovietunion palmerraids property markets marketfundamentalists belief ideology simonnelsonpatten ralphwaldoemerson tolstoy self-reliance society labor capitalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4b7b26fe6482/The Free Speech Debate Is a Trap2023-12-23T04:35:46+00:00
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/free-speech-debate-free-palestine.html
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Register for our Empowered Educator Online Conference … Leverage technology to increase students’ digital literacy and career readiness …
The most important thing you will do in this role (and maybe your entire career!) is be a part of building the future of education for your area of domain expertise. You will design a program to teach traditional school subjects but in a non-traditional way. If you are a passionate subject matter expert who believes that technology—not teachers—is the key to unlocking students’ full learning potential, then this job is for you.
There is something so banal, even embarrassing, in the aggressive positivity and predictable cant of these emails. Such exhortations have become ubiquitous on the corporatized university campus, where a diverse cast of players—administrators, student clubs, brand ambassadors, Christian ministries, military recruiters, corporate employers, fitness organizations, test prep companies—coalesce around a shared set of keywords. But when did we all become so empowered, passionate, and self-enterprising? And how did having those qualities get to be so important?
Three new books address those questions, each dismantling a core myth of neoliberal discourse. In The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History, Samuel W. Franklin uncovers the contemporary premium placed on “creativity” as a product of postwar US anxiety. Passionate Work: Endurance After the Good Life, by Renyi Hong, critiques the contemporary idea of “passion” for one’s work as an affective tool for managing the disappointments, alienation, and injustices of labor under late capitalism. And in Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill contend that the contemporary discourse of self-empowerment directed at women—both a “culture” and a “cult”—represents a neoliberal strand of feminism that makes the individual responsible for improving her own circumstances rather than addressing systemic and institutional injustices.
Together, these books provide historical context for some of neoliberalism’s most persistent idioms: grit, resilience, initiative, innovation, positive mindset, and self-improvement. The books also remind us of the stakes of language in all this. When we continue to rely on such keywords, we obscure the structural reality—and political urgency—of issues like worker precarity and widening economic inequality. Our linguistic repetition reinforces the unquestioned “truth” of the words themselves, and we thus naturalize political problems as personal ones."]]>language highered highereducation education 2023 creativity labor positivity neoliberalism precarity work grit resilience initiative innovation positivemindset mindset self-improvement ianarobitaille samuelfranklin renyihong shaniorgad rosalindgill anxiety capitalism copropratization universities colleges administration management keywords discourse rhetoric passion confidence culture disappointment alienation injustice latecapitalism rossalindgill self-empowerment women gender cults feminism individualism systems systemicinjustice institutions growth growthmindset structures reality politics urgency inequality linguistics truth ubiquity business psychology academia policy collusion industry ideology workplace us coldwar joypaulguilford calvintaylor economics lifestyle labororganizing eugenics aesthetics equity williamshockley davidogilvy belllabs entrepreneurialism progress class classdistinction technology autonomy fulfillment leisure workculture exploitation emotionalfulfillment cynicism uncertainty deprihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4db7ecbee9dd/· Alan Jacobs2023-03-20T07:32:31+00:00
https://social.ayjay.org/2023/03/15/heres-another-one.html
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https://techwontsave.us/episode/155_the_untold_history_of_silicon_valley_w_malcolm_harris
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https://srslywrong.com/podcast/270-the-future-is-degrowth-w-aaron-vansintjan/
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https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1319&context=nwjte
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https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2022/10/29/how-much-will-elon-musk-matter-to-twitters-future.html
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https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2z3259q4
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https://www.sfu.ca/~egan/Difficult-article.html
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-real-legacy-of-stewart-brand-w-malcolm-harris/id1507621076?i=1000571424334
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https://goodbye.substack.com/p/adolph-reed-jr-jim-crow-raceclass?s=r
robertogrecoIt’s not like white people had a meeting around the campfire and said, “let’s go put some Jim Crow on some Black people”
36:30: Framing Jim Crow as unrelenting oppression in fact mirrors, ironically, the very vision laid out by segregationists themselves. This view, found today in liberal anti-racism discourses, attributes everything to an abstract “white supremacy” and “anti-Blackness.” Class is disavowed. The effect is to help sustain an elite stratum of racial spokespeople. But also, why does this race-first worldview have such broad appeal?
53:15: Adolph responds to charges that his argument is class reductionist. We reference an older exchange with the late political theorist Ellen Meiskins Wood (2002) to clarify the distinctions in Adolph’s arguments (see the original text here, esp. the “Rejoinder” https://advancethestruggle.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/how_does_race_relate_to_class-2.pdf ]). Race, he argues, is one of many ideologies to sustain accumulation and class power that rest on “ascriptive differences,” or, putative ideas about the natural differences between people: if not race, then sex, gender, religion, caste, tribe, mental and physical abilities, etc.
- Also see Adolph’s concise summary in New Labor Forum (2013). [https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Adolph%20Reed%20-%20Marx%2C%20Race%2C%20and%20Neoliberalism.pdf ]
1:03:50: Wrestling with common objections, such as, “ethnocentrism predates capitalism, so race is autonomous from class”; or, “upper-class Black people are subject to police violence too, so class doesn’t explain racism.”
1:14:20: Adolph on the broader generalizability of his analysis for other groups, in the US and globally (see Clare Kim on comparative analyses of Asian American/Black racial ideology [https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2453 ]). And where Adolph got his Marxism.
I wouldn’t say I’m the most cosmopolitan world traveler. But the thing I will say is that, in every place that I’ve been, what I’ve noticed is that most people are scuffling trying to work for a living. It doesn’t matter what kind of food they eat or the music they listen to. I mean that’s all interesting, more or less. But the basic human condition is that, right?
1:30:30: NBA banter."]]>adolphreedjr 2022 race anyliu liberalism capitalism racerelations jimcrow history clarekim roxanegay charlesblow classreductionism racereductionism nationalism blacknationalism kennethclark ellenmeiskinswood newdeal class politics us merlinchowkwanyun sociology neoliberalism economics economists reaganism morality moralism society marxism ethnocentrism hierarchy socialorder slavery quentintarantino coercion culture media tv television film ideology sorting whitesupremacy oppression inequality discourse power classpowerhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:935a7ce9f698/How Adolph Reed Became An Anti-Essentialist ft. Adolph Reed - YouTube2022-04-09T04:25:31+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szzsT7TLv9k
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https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections/search/library/forms-of-education-couldnt-get-a-sense-of-it
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https://www.c-span.org/video/?199961-1/driven-out
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https://groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/joy-james
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https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/we-live-in-a-society/
robertogrecoThis exceptional duration means that incurable structural contradictions have revealed themselves and that despite this the political forces which are struggling to conserve and defend the existing structure itself are making every effort to cure them within certain limits and to overcome them. These incessant and persistent efforts (since no social formation will concede that it has been superseded) form the terrain of the conjunctural, and it is upon this terrain that the opposition organizes.
Though this passage was written about interwar Italy and appropriated to great effect by Stuart Hall to explain the rise of Thatcherism in Britain, it is difficult not to recognize our moment in it.
In Riley’s reading, an organic crisis is a systemic political dissociation between represented and representative. Political leadership forfeits the acknowledged legitimacy of its constituency. Such a scenario may or may not call forth a novel political formation, depending on the development of civil society—which he finds an autonomous and contingent matter. Hall, however, adds another element: he distinguishes between the “conjunctural” and the “organic,” observing that a crisis only passes from the merely conjunctural to the organic when the “efforts” described by Gramsci cease to be restorationist and take on an inventive character, aiming to establish a new “hegemony” on the basis of a new social bloc. Per Riley, this is only possible on the basis of civic association, which he sees as largely absent across our political spectrum.
Certainly skepticism about the possibility of resolution to the crisis is warranted. Even the unlikely victory of both Democratic candidates in Georgia’s January senate races won’t transform the underlying fact of American politics: the ungovernability of the country. That, in turn, can only mean that the crisis will not be resolved in the near term. It’s true that efforts to resolve the crisis from the right have, for the moment, been beaten back. But Trump’s failure to cohere what Gramsci would call a hegemonic “historic bloc” across class lines is no guarantee that the right will not produce such a formation successfully in the near future: one can see the outlines of it in Trump’s barely defeated coalition and the fervid, if ineffectual, resistance to the election outcome—and can easily imagine its triumph in the absence of Covid-19.
Looking to the other side, it goes without saying that the current leaders of the Democratic Party are fundamentally incapable of resolving the impasse. As the weeks since the election have revealed, the party’s directorate wishes desperately to convey to its public a willingness to accommodate the police and the system of white supremacy of which they are the visible and contested face. This is nothing other than an announcement of an intention not to contest for hegemony—since the rival far-right hegemony coheres precisely around the slogan “Blue Lives Matter.”
At the same time, and more promisingly, the disarticulated elements of a left-wing hegemony also appeared in 2020—not together, but rather in sequence. First the Sanders campaign, and then the spring-and-summer uprising against the police, each expressed a fragment of a new historic bloc. The relative social disconnection between the different parts of this hypothetical bloc, itself emerging from the disorganization of the American working class, is the reason it appeared in two parts rather than one. Each half has its own internal structures of organization. Virtually every city in America and many smaller towns are now home to what is a national panoply of Black activist organizations that emerged or grew this summer, some associated directly with larger national groups, some local specialties. Their reach, depth, and radicalism vary, but we still have yet to fully digest the scale of their achievement this year in pure organizational terms. Similarly Democratic Socialists of America and related local groups such as the tenants’ unions that have emerged in cities across the country, the Sunrise Movement, Reclaim Philadelphia, Reclaim Rhode Island, Lancaster Stands Up—and even more moderate cousins like the Working Families Party, Justice Democrats, and Indivisible—have seen very broad rank-and-file participation over the past four years. There are points of intersection between these halves, particularly promisingly among young Latinos and in the struggle against the deportation machine. There are individual people who straddle them in a sustained way, and voters and activists from one who will turn out for the other. But the overall pattern of separation at the associational level is unmistakable.
In the moments of celebration after Biden’s victory was announced, however, one could faintly glimpse a new level of unity emerging. As people filled the streets both to defend the election result and to exult in it, a new bloc began to show its face. Trade unions, largely absent from the year’s earlier movements, figured centrally in demonstrations in Philadelphia, as they had done in the election campaign beforehand. The energy and solidarity of the summer uprising were present as well, transposed into a more joyful key. The decisive role of cities like Philly, Detroit, and Minneapolis in the defeat of the right points toward the possibility of leadership for the emerging socialist and abolitionist politics based in the young activist centers of those cities, and embodied on the electoral stage by Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, and of course Nikil Saval. A socialist program that confronts white supremacy as its immediate object—rather than trying to find a majority by navigating around the edifice of white supremacy—is the principle of unity for this bloc. Its social basis lies in an alliance of low-wage workers and high-debt workers, disproportionately young, who are concentrated together in cities and increasingly in suburbs. It is not that such an alliance on its own constitutes a majority; it is that it forms a potentially solid social foundation from which to provide rational answers to the structural problems of American society, and thus to recruit the more disparate elements needed to resolve the crisis. Join together these parts, and you have a big enough resonator.
Still, to achieve this coherence will be a task of enormous conflict—with the forces of direct repression in the streets, which will not be discouraged by the presidential transition, and with the conservationist Democrats. Organization is the entire question—the building of relationships and trust across the forms of social difference that have thus far prevented the socialist message from resonating as widely as it might. For this, as it happens, Snyder had some advice, although he perhaps didn’t realize this was what he meant: “put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people.” Or, as Phil Agnew put it—knowing exactly what he meant—“squeeze a hand.””]]>2020 gabrielwinant donaldtrump trumpism politics elections us fascism organizing blacklivesmatter race racism capitalism organization berniesanders dsa democraticsocialistsofamerica sunrisemovement protest activism reclaimphiladelphia reclaimrhodeisland philadelphia rhodeisland lancasterstandsup lancaster workingfamiliesparty justicedemocrats indivisible republicans democrats history future present ilhanomar rashidatlaib coribush alexandriaocasio-cortez jamaalbowman nikilsaval labor unions teaparty work workers philagnew stuarthall antoniogramsci timothysnyder qanon talialavin bluelivesmatter dylanriley hierarchy wendybrown liberalism neoliberalism covid-19 coronavirus economics alexpareene mikedavis joearpaio whitesupremacy minneapolis riogrande texas jessicacisneros workingclass class newdeal congressionalblackcaucas power elitism establishment eugenedebs california dreamdefenders florida socialism patriomonialism albertotoscano communism georgepadmore jimcrow colonialism settlercolonialism angeladavis marxhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2c04db5fb35b/Are We in Denial about Denial? | Public Books2020-12-14T05:27:50+00:00
https://www.publicbooks.org/are-we-in-denial-about-denial/
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https://www.davidcayley.com/blog/2020/4/8/questions-about-the-current-pandemic-from-the-point-of-view-of-ivan-illich-1
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https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/higher-ed-in-crisis/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3D2iyBqlCk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVTDahs2gFQ
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https://quillandquire.com/omni/qa-canisia-lubrin-speaks-to-dionne-brand-about-her-two-new-books-the-blue-clerk-and-theory/
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https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/its-all-just-beginning/
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https://newrepublic.com/article/155970/collapse-neoliberalism
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https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/
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https://www.filmsforaction.org/news/revolution-and-american-indians-marxism-is-as-alien-to-my-culture-as-capitalism/
robertogrecorussellmeans 1980 writing oraltradition lakota thinking abstraction indigeneity genocide resistance marxism culture outsiders education unschooling deschooling leftism anarchism johnlocke adamsmith descartes physics politics economics christianity religion efficiency spirituality complexity hegel karlmarx materialism isaacnewton dehumanization despiritualization progress development victory freedom loss indoctrination schools schooling scientism rationalism capitalism redistribution truth revolution society industrialization sovietunion china vietnam order indigenous alternative values traditions theory practice praxis westernism europe posthumanism morethanhuman rationality belief ideology nature survival extermination whiteness whitesupremacy community caucasians deathculture isms revolt leaders idols leadership activism words language canon environment sustainability learninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:83093ba559e4/Inhumanism Rising - Benjamin H Bratton - YouTube2019-11-18T07:12:45+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsgLk5AObao
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https://reallifemag.com/utopian-overreach/
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/adam-serwer-civility/600784/
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/08/left-is-the-new-right-or-why-marx-matters/
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https://logicmag.io/nature/a-giant-bumptious-litter/
robertogrecodonnaharaway 2019 californianideology interviews wholeearthcatalog stewartbrand technosolutionism technology climatechange extinction deminism ontology cynicism resistance siliconvalley objectivity ideology science politics policy loss mourning biology resurrection activism humans multispecies morethanhuman extractivism exterminationism plantations capitalism industrialism history indigenous socialismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c43165ebf36f/Krystal Ball: Democrats on track to nominate Warren, lose to Trump | TheHill2019-09-25T18:50:23+00:00
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/462654-krystal-ball-democrats-on-track-to-nominate-warren-lose-to-trump
robertogrecokrystalball elizabethwarren berniesanders progressive donaldtrump hillaryclinton elections politics 2019 2020 capitalism joebiden democrats dmc johnkerry labor workingclass class us ideology culture alexandriaocasio-cortez aochttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3d4e6cc950e7/Episode 87: Nate Silver and the Crisis of Pundit Brain by Citations Needed Podcast2019-09-23T01:20:29+00:00
https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-87-nate-silver-and-the-crisis-of-pundit-brain
robertogreconatesilver statistics elections politics 2008 2012 2016 2020 2019 polling data punditry 538 cynicism snark smartpeople joebiden nathanrobinson citationsneeded racism mattyglesias justicedemocrats progressive elizabethwarren barackobama hillaryclinton berniesanders change meaning purpose belief capitalism statusquo ideology morality ethics debates priorities quantification policy horseraces gamification horseracepolitics electibility ideas gaming chicktodd media nytimes abcnews espn donaldtrump datafetishism progressivism values betting observationeffect voting us analysis trolling entertainment probability apathy apoliticalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cfb186643019/Hollowed Out | Tarence Ray2019-09-07T00:55:25+00:00
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/hollowed-out-ray
robertogrecoThe hotel is a central component of Whitesburg’s economic development future and revitalization plans. After the structure is stabilized and renovated, it will be a regional destination and economic driver. The project will create 23 jobs, leverage $2,000,000 in private investment, and will attract 9,900 additional visitors annually to the area. [Emphasis mine.]
These metrics are how you determine the ambition of the project: 9,900 additional visitors annually to the area. How’d they get that number? Well, they either made it up, or some consulting firm gave it to them, and they probably made it up.”
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“It’s clear how the POWER Initiative benefits Appalachia’s new managerial class, disaster capitalists who are forward-looking only in their desire to exploit resources in Appalachia which don’t yet exist. But it certainly hasn’t benefitted the people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, who don’t have the capital to start their own entrepreneurial “ecosystems” or run countless feasibility tests with no discernable purpose. I realize I’m missing the point here; the eminently wise technocrats of the ARC would tell me that of course poor and working people aren’t going to start their own businesses. The point is to get middle- and upper-class gentrifiers to start those businesses, and then they’ll employ everyone in a community, and their wealth will trickle down. Even if that were possible in a rapidly depopulating region, many people would remain trapped in violent, backbreaking, dead-end jobs.
But training poor and working people for different jobs is equally unpromising. The majority of the tech skills that that POWER grantees have promised to teach are in some of the most replaceable jobs in the industry: app development, web development, and dataset management. And even if those jobs aren’t easily replaceable by fellow low-paid workers, in a few years they will be, by machines. One POWER project in Pennsylvania got over half a million dollars to train former coal miners to become pipeline workers in oil and gas, an industry that automates and mechanizes at hyperspeed.
Of course people will still be needed to run and monitor the machines, but there isn’t much manufacturing going on in the Appalachian interior, and there never will be, simply because it’s not profitable to put your factory in a remote county in eastern Kentucky, far away from all major ports and transportation corridors. The very people who love capitalism so much that they’d base their entire Appalachian revitalization project on its inerrancy constantly forget its basic premise: things must be profitable in order to matter.
All of this is to say that we can identify several themes in the Obama administration’s grand Appalachian economic development initiative. First: never meet peoples’ material needs directly or encourage them to organize. Rather, study the feasibility of giving them things, or throw some money at a community college, which can train people in the art of being a well-behaved and productive worker, so that they can then get things themselves. Second: if you absolutely must build any infrastructure, make sure that it’s in service to something else, like a wildlife viewing facility or a prison. Third: use as many fancy words as possible to make it sound like you’re keeping busy. Target and deploy your dislocated coal workers to maximize creative potential so that we can create a thriving and diverse restorative economy in the mountains.
And finally, the fourth and most important thing: remember that you don’t actually owe anybody anything, that the government has ceased delivering people even their most basic needs, that it has in fact altogether stopped caring if they live or die. Remember that agencies like the Appalachian Regional Commission exist first and foremost to facilitate industry, and that the grant they’ve given you is meant to be deployed for that purpose. Remember that the story you tell is more important than the work you do, which should never amount to more than attending conferences and joining conference calls. And through it all, don’t forget to tell your friends and family that you’re helping the poor people of Appalachia who are too dumb and broke and demoralized and addicted to help themselves.
Right now, the hillbillies are a rich seam of grant money. Capitalists, being opportunists, will always flock when they see one.”
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“In rolling out the POWER Initiative, the Obama administration rarely mentioned poverty; the rhetoric was all about the middle class and their well-paying, skilled jobs. The elite no longer have to manage the lower classes through ambitious national political projects; their single-minded obsession with preserving the middle class does that for them, because it provides a bulwark against working-class solidarity.
Those of us who do want a better world often find our efforts stymied by projects claiming to be progressive. The single most important legacy of the War on Poverty is the creation of a massive nonprofit industry in poor, rural areas like Appalachia. As Goldstein writes, “For a select few, antipoverty programs were a means toward political mobility and professional advancement as representatives or intermediaries for the poor. Funding made possible the development of a new class of local political leaders and nonprofessional social workers habituated to the routines of the political process.”
These leaders and nonprofessional social workers have never gone away. They tell us every day that the way to turn around our prospects is to work within the system, to be nice to our politicians and oligarchs so that they’ll give us nice things in return, to work out and eat right so we might deserve those nice things. Meanwhile, infrastructure continues to crumble and working people struggle to put food on the table. But at least, thanks to the POWER initiative, we can work out our abs on the walking trail to liberation.”]]>charitableindustrialcomplex philanthropicindustrialcomplex waronpoverty nonprofit nonprofits 2019 rural appalachia revitalization loops powerprogram funding class solidarity ideology capitalism poverty inequality statusquo workingwithinthesystem kentucky westvirginia tarenceray management disastercapitalism gentrification profit philanthropy charitieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e94a6653a82e/Tools – Undergraduate Seminar-Studio @ The New School | Fall 2019 | Shannon Mattern + Or Zubalsky2019-08-30T02:31:28+00:00
https://tools.wordsinspace.net/2019/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaf6baEu0_w
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-FbtHmZhU
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https://dellsystem.me/posts/fragments-104
robertogrecoBy saying that capitalism is fine and its critics should be grateful rather than resentment, capitalism’s apologists are expressing a barely muted contempt for those who think they deserve more than what they’re currently getting. […]
and, in the end:
‘gratitude’ politics is a means of dampening dissent among those who have been unfairly cheated of their fair share of society’s wealth. As a means of shielding elites from the consequences of mismanagement, it serves to contain calls for structural change. Beyond that, as a political philosophy, it is an inherently backwards-looking enterprise. Spend too much time feeling grateful for what you’ve achieved so far and you’ll become complacent, less inclined to push for what has yet to be achieved. Societal progress is driven by discontent, not gratitude, and if anyone tells you to abandon the former in favour of the latter, you should be very, very suspicious of them: what are they afraid they’ll lose?
Related, but not quite the same, is the idea of appeal to progress. This seems to be a pretty common trope among liberals - see Steven Pinker’s response to Thomas Piketty raising the alarm about economic inequality. (Here’s a Jacobin piece by Jason Hickel responding to Pinker, explaining that poverty is not decreasing as much as he may think, and a Baffler article responding critiquing Pinker as well as Yuval Noah Harari.) Most recently, I came across a tweet by Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic suggesting “comparing young adults now to those in pre-capitalist times” as a way of testing Malcolm Harris’ thesis that “millennials are bearing the brunt of the economic damage wrought by late-20th-century capitalism”. Millennials might be facing a terrible job market and massive debt, but they have iPhones and pizza, so why should they complain?
Capitalism is often defended on account of it being apparently synonymous with progress. But progress isn’t monolothic; when we talk about progress in the abstract we are often conflating several very different things. Sure, humanity may have progressed along certain axes (science, technology and culture, for example), but it’s regressed in others (stewarding the natural environment, distributing resources in an equitable way).
I suspect that the major so-called benefits of capitalism could have been achieved through a fairer economic system without all the numerous downsides we’re seeing today (in terms of ecological catastrophe and exhausted misery for much of the working class). This possibility is ignored when all these highly variegated strands of progress are placed under one giant banner of capital-P Progress, one which is inexplicably reframed as Progress Under Capitalism. Questioning the economic system itself becomes off-limits; if you don’t like inequality, surely you also don’t like refrigerators or Game of Thrones. The terms of debate are presented as a binary choice between a capital-driven ideal of Progress with all its downsides, and a pre-capital state of ignorance.
Actual societal progress is multifarious, and complicated - not everyone would agree on what constitutes progress or not. We should be skeptical of the story told by liberals of a monotonically-increasing Progress. What is the role of this sort of defense of the status quo? Whom does it serve, and whom does it leave out?
We should treat this avatar of liberal “Progress” as the Comcast of capitalist apologia: a disjointed collection of things that have no business being served in one bundle. Surely we can move beyond false dichotomies about sweeping statements like “progress” in order to isolate the specific aspects we want, or don’t."]]>ideology inequality 2019 wendyliu capitalism progress gratitude economics society poverty stevenpinker thomaspiketty conorfriedersdorf yuvalnoahharari malcolmharris yuvalhararihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e0b937ee431f/‘Liz Was a Diehard Conservative’ - POLITICO Magazine2019-04-22T20:17:43+00:00
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/12/elizabeth-warren-profile-young-republican-2020-president-226613
robertogrecoWarren’s academic career soon took a turn that made her far less comfortable with unfettered free markets. Prompted in part by a surge in personal bankruptcy filings following the passage of new bankruptcy laws in 1978, Warren, Sullivan and Westbrook in 1982 decided to study bankruptcy in a way that was then considered novel in academia: by digging into the anecdotal evidence of individual filings and traveling to bankruptcy courts across the country, often rolling a small copy machine through airports along the way.
Whatever their take on "capitalism" or "socialism," I'm here for leaders who understand how American capitalism in its current form (since the late 1970s; "neoliberalism") has completely failed—both morally and technically.
In the presidential field, there are exactly two.
The intellectual damage of the 1980s is intense. It's immensely to Warren's credit that, as a young woman untenured professor then, she realized—through fieldwork—that she could not in conscience enforce the ideology.
And everyone who went to elite colleges in the US in the 1980s needs to be scrutinized. I remember intro economics in 1985-86. Martin Feldstein preaching the catechism to 1,000 young minds in Sanders Theatre. Midterms where you "proved" why rent control was bad. Deadweight loss!
Three years later those young minds were lining up for "recruiting" as Goldman, Morgan, McKinsey et al swarmed the campus to usher them into the golden cage. This shit happened quickly, people. It's a wonder anyone escaped.
People shaped in the 1990s, with the neoliberal foundation cushioned by Clintonite anesthesia, post-Cold War complacency, and the mystical arrival of the internet, are no better. Probably need even more deprogramming. That's why the arrival of the AOC generation is SUCH A RELIEF."
https://twitter.com/NYCJulieNYC/status/1120080930658557952
"Not everyone. A lot of college students in the 1980s were committed activists, from those involved in Divestment from Apartheid South Africa to ACT UP to activism against US policy in Central America."
https://twitter.com/siddhmi/status/1120081603403898886
"Indeed. I was one of them! But that doesn't mean we didn't get coated in the zeitgeist. We all need periodic cleansing."]]]>elizabethwarren mindchanging politics research listening 2019 berniesanders siddharthamitter billclinton 1990s 1980s ronaldreagan economics martinfeldstein neoliberalism 2000s us policy bankruptcy academia jaywestbrook highered highereducation ideology fieldwork rentcontrol regulation consumerprotection democrats republicans finance cfpb banking marketshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6eacdda9e669/Optimize What? • Commune2019-04-22T01:24:39+00:00
https://communemag.com/optimize-what/
robertogrecoOur investigations enable us to identify one component of the problem (with economic planning): the material conditions (computational technology) for effective socialist planning of a complex peacetime economy were not realized before, say, the mid-1980s. If we are right, the most notorious features of the Soviet economy (chronically incoherent plans, recurrent shortages and surpluses, lack of responsiveness to consumer demand), while in part the result of misguided policies, were to some degree inevitable consequences of the attempt to operate a system of central planning before its time. The irony is obvious: socialism was being rejected at the very moment when it was becoming a real possibility.
Politically, much has changed since these words were written. The takeaway for contemporary readers is not necessarily that we should devote ourselves to central planning once more; rather, it’s that our moment carries a unique mixture of ideological impasse and emancipatory potential, ironically both driven in large part by technological development. The cold science of computation seems to declare that social progress is over—there can only be technological progress. Yet if we manage to wrest control of technology from Silicon Valley and the Ivory Tower, the possibilities for postcapitalist society are seemingly endless. The twenty-first-century tech workers’ movement, a hopeful vehicle for delivering us towards such prospects, is nascent—but it is increasingly a force to be reckoned with, and, at the risk of getting carried away, we should start imagining the future we wish to inhabit. It’s time we began conceptualizing, and perhaps prototyping, computation and information in a workers’ world. It’s time to start conceiving of a new left-wing science."]]>engineering problemsolving capitalism computers politics technology jimmywu 2019 optimization efficiency allincottrell paulcockshott siliconvalley techosolutionism technocapitalism computation wendyliu compsci ideologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5119ed6019ac/What Michelle Obama Gets Wrong About Racism2019-03-29T02:55:06+00:00
https://bostonreview.net/race/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor-succeeding-while-black
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https://thebaffler.com/latest/get-real-ray
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http://salvage.zone/uncategorized/with-or-without-you-naturalising-migrants-and-the-never-ending-tragedy-of-liberalism/
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https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-58-the-neoliberal-optimism-industry
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