If the world economy were an ocean, finance would be the currents and swells shifting resources from one shore to another. Sometimes the flows are steady, the surface looks millpond smooth … but then, out of the blue, things start to get rough … A capitalist economy is a complex system involving many interdependent markets. […]
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What is an economic system? In schools and universities, economics is taught as if capitalism is natural’, or the only system possible. But in fact there have been, throughout history, many different ways of organising how we use and produce resources. Here are just a few examples: • Hunter-gatherer traditions and cultures • ‘Gift economies’, […]
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I have decided to start a few threads on this topic, based on a number of talks and discussions on capitalism i’ve done over the years. Sometimes, I start by asking people: what does capitalism mean to you? Here are a few words that often come up: profit banks exploitation markets greed wage labour class […]
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I have opened up this thread for now, although it is not strictly speaking active. I wanted to share some intitial thoughts after reading the introduction and some of chapter 2, the introduction is chapter 1 by the way. The book is very easy to read, I think it is by far the simplest book […]
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I liked the idea of this kind of section on a forum, a place where members can write an essay, a play, movie script, poetry and more, if their topic does not or does fit into the general themes of the rest of the forum. Overcome your writers’ block here!
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This is some text I found on my PC. It was answering a video that had a guy I know called Nick, asking an ‘astrologer’ about astrology. Hi Nick, Here are the questions you asked in the interview and my responses. I will attempt to keep them as simple and as short as possible. […]
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This is a thesis that a friend gave to me, she got her doctorate in philosophy with this thesis. It has lots of ideas from Jean Luc Nancy, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guatarri and Michel Foucault to name a few. I haven’t read it properly yet, but just thought I would share it for future interest.
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Just found this Routledge Critical Thinkers book about Lacan, maybe it will come in handy for Derrida in particular.
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Barbican Art Gallery has invited conceptual documentary photographer and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Richard Mosse to create an immersive multi-channel video installation in the Curve. In collaboration with composer Ben Frost and cinematographer Trevor Tweeten, Mosse has been working with a new, powerful telephoto military camera that can detect the human body from a […]
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Don’t be fooled by the title of this thread, I hate the performative actions of discipline and punishment from the state. What is of interest however, given the recent Trump exiling of illegal migrants, is that there is a difference between saying ‘I am against immigration, something ought to be done’, which is a performative […]