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Continue reading “Reading List 16”Review: Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
Continue reading “Review: Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris”Starving the peasants into the factories is the classic narrative of proletarianization, the creation story of the industrial working class. California didn’t have the factories of a Manchester, UK; a Lyon, France; or a Lowell, Massachusetts, but the state took on a factory orientation towards what it did have, which was gold and land. Unlike so much of the world, California did not see capitalist economics evolve step-by-step out of feudal property relations. Capital hit California like a meteor, alien tendrils surging from the crash site.
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Totality
Today marked the first time I was witness to a total solar eclipse! Even with the cloud cover obscuring the view of the relevant celestial bodies it was still an incredible experience as it got dark in the middle of the afternoon. It was dark enough for the streetlights to turn on because their light sensors detected the darkness.
Continue reading “Totality”Media Diet – March 2024
March was mostly the month of the non-fiction book sprinkled along with a bit of video game and a TV show.
Continue reading “Media Diet – March 2024”Review: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Continue reading “Review: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber”Final Working Definition: a bullshit job is a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case.
pages 9-10, chapter titled “What Is a Bullshit Job?”