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There’s a modern phenomenon whereby personal style—on the body, in the home—is understood as a separate track of identity. It’s a mode of expression we’re meant to perfect through mimetic desire and buying the right stuff. I’m thinking, for instance, of dressing like a “coastal grandma,” without otherwise inhabiting the relevant lifestyle choices. ... See more
Haley Nahman • #176: Accounting for taste
In The Trouble with Passion , Erin demonstrates how the commodification of passion in the contemporary workplace perpetuates class inequality in college and beyond. While passion may seem, on the surface, to be highly individualistic, she details the many ways that it is actually rooted in structural positions and identities.
The Trouble with Passion
Erin Kissane, Writer/Researcher - XOXO Festival (2024)
youtube.comInvisible Labor, Visible Needs: Making Family Policy Work for Stay-At-Home (And All) Parents
Elliot Haspelcapita.org
Many workers in the contemporary economy are precarious service workers, cleaning the homes and offices of those with stable jobs, making other people’s lives seamless.
Amelia Horgan • Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)
A project of unionizing service workers, fast-food workers, domestic workers, agricultural workers, public-sector workers, and more—defending the unions that do exist and organizing the unorganized—that’s a potential game-changer.