Tag: community
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Excerpt from Erich Fromm’s Escape from Freedom
On the correlating rise of capitalism and individualism: “All human relationships were poisoned by the fierce life-and-death struggle for the maintenance of power and wealth. Solidarity with one’s fellow men...
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A Note on Open Access
I recently came across a text, Anxious Geographies: Worlds of Social Anxiety, that like far too many scholarly texts is far overpriced. The book is $180 and the eBook is...
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Capitalism and Violence-Customs
There is the potential movement today for even the brightest types of democracies to normalize into a hybrid totalitarian, democracy-lite, formational violence. Of course, whether these institutions were ever true...
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A Memo on the Need for Intervention During this Ontological Crisis of Individualistic Capitalist Motivations
The world population wonders how people will continue to aspire to create great things and embark on great achievements without money. It is rather embarrassing to be a human when...
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Rights and Responsibilities: Addressing Love and Violence in a Post-Capitalist World
Love is always wise: So I heard a voice, perhaps it was a bird, telling me. At first, this is offensively incorrect. It means rejecting all means of self-protection, all...
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Notes on Space and Place, Feminist Geography, and Related Texts
I. In Hortense J. Spillers essay, “Notes on an Alternative Model – Neither/Nor,” from Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, she surveys William Faulkner in...
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Complaint Memo: Star Trek and Climate Change – Ways to Improve
These are just a few short notes that I already made elsewhere. Given time I will elaborate on them more completely, perhaps even individually, but I thought I should post...
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Memo: Rethinking Degrowth as Resistance to Capitalism
I have had some time to rethink what Koch & Elmore wrote about Baudrillard’s elaboration on Marxist ideas and the pervasiveness of capitalism. I have two or three Baudrillard texts,...
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Degrowth as Resistance, Despite Baudrillard’s Networking of Fetishism
Koch & Elmore (2006) argue that contrary to popular opinion Baudrillard’s later work did not abandon Marxist theory. He elaborated on it. Baudrillard expanded on the “macro-molecular code” of Marxist...