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 [Surveillance] is how corporations find out intimate details about us that they use for marketing purposes, it’s how governments determine whether we’re a risk or a good citizen or a threat to the nation, and so forth. They call it ubiquitous surveillance. It’s just everywhere, all the time, in theContinue Reading

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It ensured that center-left governments would share the outlook of the financial elite at the expense of ordinary people” who would come to understand that whether they voted for “Clinton, Bush, or Obama, or Trump, they somehow got Goldman Sachs.” Continue Reading

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Link sent by Richard. You know, I like to think that the human capacity for credulity is unlimited, unfettered. But the human capacity for self-deception— the ultimate self-credulity — is also unfettered, unlimited. I look at him and I think to myself: You can’t really believe this stuff. And yet,Continue Reading

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The issue of Assembling a New Left is an underlying concern for us all.  The review reveals this book to take into account the current moment when thinking about progressive politics:  social networks, effective decentralized organization in the face of atomization and virtualization, the perils and promises of agency spontaneously but rigorouslyContinue Reading