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Modern efforts to locate universalisms in secular ethical tenets –such as Kantian moral universalism, communism or modernization theory – are in apparent retreat, precisely at a time when nationalism has succumbed to capitalist forms of universal commodification.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
La redistribution du travail a été opérée en dépossédant les prestataires de travail de tout pouvoir sur leur temps : les uns, dont la firme a besoin en permanence, travaillent à horaires flexibles, selon la conjoncture et les saisons ; les autres, temporaires, précaires, temps partiels, télétravailleurs, vacataires, travaillent par intermittence,
... See moreAndré Gorz • Misères du présent, richesse du possible (French Edition)
Ce relativisme moral post-moderne atteint un sommet dans les années 1980. À ce moment-là, des philosophes se mettent alors à déterrer Aristote et remettent au goût du jour cette croyance selon laquelle certains modes de vie sont simplement meilleurs que d’autres et que le rôle (et même le devoir) de l’État est d’encourager l’épanouissement des cito
... See moreJules Evans • La philo, c'est la vie ! (Poche) (French Edition)
The feminist uncanny valley is the result of a larger neoliberal framework that over the past five decades has come to unite politics, economics, and culture in a web of individualism, privatization, and decreasing focus on both community and compassion.
Andi Zeisler • We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
Harvey argues that neoliberalization is best conceived of as a ‘political project to re-establish the conditions for capital accumulation and to restore the power of economic elites’.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
– social engagement and equality of opportunity – are, for me, two of its most precious possibilities.
Jen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
Maybe more important than knowing that for sure right now is knowing what the new rules of the road should be for a political economy that is both pro-working-class and globalized.
Nancy Fraser • The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
Public housing is not properly an end in itself. It can only be justified as a means to an end of making our cities fit places in which to live. What kind of public housing should it be?…The tenant’s rent should be increased with his increase in income and he should not be evicted as an over-income tenant. When his increasing rent reaches the point
... See moreJane Jacobs • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Social justice—the principle, not the ideology—can only be served if we have consistent principles. Women’s rights, LGBT rights, and racial or caste equality must either be the right of all people or of none.