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Theory for the Anthropocene

November 25, 2015 • by Zeyno Ustun

Roy Scranton, Stephanie Wakefield, and McKenzie Wark participated in a lecture on the Anthropocene. Our world is changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water supplies. Our greatest enemy, it turns out, is ourselves. The warmer, wetter, more chaotic world we now live in -- the Anthropocene -- demands an intensive rethinking of ...

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Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy

April 17, 2015 • by Trebor Scholz

The backlash against unethical labor practices in the “collaborative sharing economy” has been overplayed. Recently, The Washington Post, New York Times and others started to rail against online labor brokerages like ...

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Thoughts on Thanaticism

April 10, 2014 • by Michael Dobson

What does it take to inaugurate a new historical epoch, then? A name certainly helps. The “Anthropocene” has gained currency recently, and while its denotation of time is ostensibly geologic, there is surely a political edge to claiming we have moved beyond the Holocene. How many more ways can we ...

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The Creative Class Rises Again

March 26, 2014 • by Vince Carducci

When first published in 2002, The Rise of the Creative Class quickly established its author Richard Florida as an urban policy and business management guru. The Rise of the Creative Class heralded the emergence of a new class of worker who promised to lead the economy, and along with it the rest ...

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Jonathan Crary’s 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

November 29, 2013 • by Vince Carducci

When I was a kid in the 1960s one of the big questions I remember being tossed about was what to do with all of the free time that modern society would afford us. That there would be a virtually unlimited horizon of material abundance and thus leisure, and how ...

Jonathan Crary’s <em>24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep</em>

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How to Beat Writer’s Block

Try these games to unblock the flow, or direct it somewhere new.

November 8, 2013 • by McKenzie Wark

These games are offered as solutions for two kinds of problems. One is writer’s block. Let’s be done with the waiting for ‘inspiration’. Let’s just get to work. All one has to overcome is one’s resistance to labor. The other problem is the opposite: our facility with writing, but always ...