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What, then, can we expect in the near term? Absent a secure hegemony, we face an unstable interregnum and the continuation of the political crisis. In this situation, the words of Gramsci ring true: “The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
Nancy Fraser • The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
He went on to rethink modern architecture from a biological perspective and later publicly broke with the environmental movement over nuclear power and GMO food.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
The main thrust of the counter-revolution has been either the elimination or the financialization of social arrangements that had previously supported many kinds of cooperative activity. Through the appropriation of public spaces and resources into the logic of the marketplace, individuals are dispossessed of many collective forms of mutual support
... See moreJonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
In its broad outlines this theory maintains that the restructuring of the world economy, in particular the computer and information revolutions, have ushered in a phase of capitalist development, partially anticipated by Marx in the Grundrisse, in which science becomes the main productive force and the valorization process is fueled by the cognitiv
... See moreSilvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
We are, for the first time in modern history, facing the prospect of how societies would exist without reliable news – at least as it used to be understood.
Alan Rusbridger • Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
despite the arrival of