Why Work Doesn’t Work
The idea that we work because we want to, not because we need to, is a pernicious one that labor journalist Sarah Jaffe dissects in Work Won’t Love You Back.
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Is Social Media Facing Its Biggest Existential Threat?
Jaron Lanier says we should delete our social media accounts, yet it's not social media per se, but the way in which it presently exists, that Lanier is concerned about. But Lanier is overlooking a critical factor in our social media addiction.
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Will a New Form of Socialism Rise? On Bhaskar Sunkara’s ‘The Socialist Manifesto’
Socialists need to do better in fighting against identity-based discrimination, as editor of Jacobin Bhaskar Sunkara notes in The Socialist Manifesto, but that struggle will only be effective if waged as part of a larger struggle against neoliberal capitalism.
‘Article 353’ Explores Who Might Mete Out Justice When the Law Fails
Article 353 is Tanguy Viel's politically charged, darkly atmospheric, and cathartic indictment of neoliberal capitalism.
Naomi Klein Explores How Puerto Rico Is Exploited by Disaster Capitalism and How It’s Resisting
Puerto Rico's tragic struggle to recover from natural disaster and political imperialism offers a case study in 'disaster capitalism' with Naomi Klein's The Battle for Paradise.
Vaporwave, Cartooned in ‘Rick and Morty’ and ‘Too Many Cooks’
Short film “Too Many Cooks” and cartoon series Rick and Morty are distinctive examples of the Vaporwave Sensibility expressed in narrative-visual form.
The Book About Geek Triumph You Probably Don’t Need
Neoliberalism offers the illusion of choice. The triumph of geek culture is an illusion of triumph; it's just another way to be bought—and to like it. A critique of A.D. Jameson's I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing.
The 21st Century Counterculture of Pa. Ranjith’s ‘Kaala’
Is the incandescent and resplendent but bloated Kaala a transnational manifesto resurrecting the Left to rollback rightwing tribalism's global onslaught?
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