‘Lean in hard’ is anti-scientific, anti-worker, and bad for our future
Dear friends, This morning’s headlines included an article titled: “Australia has ‘no alternative’ but to embrace AI and seek to be a world leader in the...
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy?
Dear friends, I have been thinking a lot about the ABC’s federal election coverage. Partly, concerned about how they continue to adhere to a 2PP system when...
Tactics, modalities, mechanisms
Dear friends, Long time no correspondence. I hope you are well. Broadly speaking we tend to categorise political moments into shapes, types, and kinds, which...
Identity, giving a shit and the upcoming federal election
Dear friends, Today I have some whinges about poverty, ‘Australian’ culture, and some of the deeper socioeconomic possibilities we face in the coming...
At the nexus of knowledge appropriation and AI
Dear friends, Today I’d like to share some thoughts around a nexus point between an ongoing colonial capitalist modality of expropriation and the utterly...
You look nice today (or, the ‘values’ of capitalism)
Dear friends, Last week I shaved my head. Not a foreign experience, but foreign enough that I’m noticing feeling that I have always had but is now obvious in...
Broken sleep, broken worlds
Dear friends, You may have observed that I’ve been pondering the nature of our broken worlds, in particular how this has deep effects on our bodies. From...
The shape of (non)existence
Dear friends, It’s been a minute, and there’s been some significant changes for both mind reader and for me as a human. Today I want to take a moment to...
Grand narratives
Dear friends, Barthes claimed the death of the author in 1967. This claim asked us to reject, or at least challenge, the practice of interpreting texts...
Navigating plurality in non-dynamic systems (or, ‘dynamism’ and human suffering)
Dear friends, We are bound in frames of colonial capitalism with systems of static purpose and design. Unless you live on the periphery, it is highly likely...
Plurality Plurality Plurality Plurality REC
Dear friends, Let’s come to terms with some terms. Sorry, I’m not trying to be cute (that’s just effortless). I think it’s important we, as I constantly...
The labour process, atomisation and social media
Dear friends, As I grow increasingly concerned about the level of influence Zucc has with his near monopoly on social media, I concomitantly grow concerned...
On class
Dear friends, Let’s take a voyage together through three understandings of class. This concept is becoming increasingly interesting to me, particularly in...
Musk and the death of democracy
Dear friends, I am constantly forced to think about Elon Musk and his egomaniacal, loud, and unearned positioning in society and emerging formal role in...
Oligopoly capitalism: angry men, idiots, and fascism
Dear friends, With the increase in Musky headlines, I cant help but offer a christmas posting on oligopoly capitalism. This, I argue, is the next phase in...
Theorising the revolution
Dear friends, I have been thinking about labour and the nature of exploitation. Not the political party, though they could easily fit under a similar topic...
The postal service
Dear friends, In an almost bourgeois fugue state today I felt rising rage at the para-privatisation of the postal service in this country. Yeah, oddly...
Wealth vs solidarity, and the need for compassion
Dear friends, I have been thinking about the how the corporate class, the bootlickers, the “upper middle class” and others utterly slavish to the capitalist...
Optimism as antidote to despair
Dear friends, I have been thinking about optimism and despair. Actually, I’ve been reading on optimism over despair [1] and thinking about an analytical...
CEOs and death
Dear friends, Overnight in the US a person killed a private health care company’s CEO [1]. The suspicion, of course, is that this company denied the person’s...