The New Spirit of Capitalism
or, how we are continually persuaded to participate in the ridiculous I have started reading The New Spirit of Capitalism by Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello and will attempt a too-brief summary and pick out a few points I noted. It is an analysis of the relationship of capitalism with the critique of it, and a [...]
what must be done, and why i am not (yet) doing it
Part one: what must be done Climate change. If you haven’t seen the film age of stupid, see it. Really, see it. It seems to me that if we give a damn about our (collective) future we need to be, each, making as much of an impact as possible. But what with all these inconvenient [...]