Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to parts of an interview with Michael Hudson, discussing his book J Is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception:
“Alluring Infrastructure Income”
“Why Deficits Hurt Banking Profits”
“Retirement. What Social Obligation?”
Bonus links: Pierre Bourdieu, Language and Symbolic Power and Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society and “Social Chauvinism” (a critique easily leveled at Hudson’s admiration for protectionism)
Link to an article by Stclair:
Link to an article by Daniel Geary:
Bonus links: “Chomsky vs. Žižek” and “The Man With Two Brains”
Link to an article by Luke Savage:
Link to an article by Ahmed Shawki:
Bonus link: “To the Memory of Malcolm X: Fifty Years After His Assassination”
Link to an article and book review by Margaret Garb:
“How Today’s White Middle Class Was Made Possible By Welfare”
Link to a report by Demos:
“The Asset Value of Whiteness: Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap”
Selected quote: “This paper explores a number of these popular explanations for the racial wealth gap, looking at individual differences in education, family structure, full- or part-time employment, and consumption habits. In each case, we find that individual choices are not sufficient to erase a century of accumulated wealth: structural racism trumps personal responsibility.”
Bonus link: “From the Cold War to Clinton: How Liberals and Conservatives Have Separated Race From Class”
Link to an article by Simon Davis-Cohen:
“Corporate America is Inching Even Closer to a Constitutional Convention”
Link to machine translation of Robespierre‘s speech of April 24, 1793:
“Draft Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen”
Superior in every way to the final version.
Link to an essay by Jorge Luis Borges (translated by James E. Irby):
An event retroactively creating its own possibility is what Hegel called “totalizing”