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Thomas Ferguson, Jie Chen & Paul Jorgensen – Fifty Shades of Green

Link to a report by Thomas Ferguson, Jie Chen & Paul Jorgensen of the Roosevelt Institute:

“Fifty Shades of Green: High Finance, Political Money, and the U.S. Congress”

 

Bonus Links: Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems and “Money Still Rules US Politics”

Slavoj Žižek – Beautiful Soul Quote

“They play the Beautiful Soul, which feels superior to the corrupted world while secretly participating in it: they need this corrupted world as the only terrain where they can exert their moral superiority.”

Slavoj Žižek, Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors: Against the Double Blackmail (2016)

 

Bonus links: Phenomenology of Spirit and Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and “Margaret Atwood’s Work Illustrates Our Need to Enjoy Other People’s Pain” and The Twilight Zone Episode 63: “The Mind and The Matter” (essentially endorses the “beautiful soul” position)

Pascal Blackfoot – Beyond the Class Ceiling

Link to an article by Pascal Blackfoot:

“Beyond the Class Ceiling: Education and Upward Social Mobility”

 

This excellent article explicitly references the work of Pierre Bourdieu.  However, the specific questions address under that theoretical framework resemble Jonathan Cobb and Richard Sennett‘s The Hidden Injuries of Class, and some further examples of the concepts discussed specific to the academic/educational context can be found in books like This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class and Strangers in Paradise: Academics from the Working Class

Lloyd Alter – New Study Looks at Attitudes of Drivers Toward Cyclists, and It Ain’t Pretty

Link to an article by Lloyd Alter:

“New Study Looks at Attitudes of Drivers Toward Cyclists, and It Ain’t Pretty”

 

Bonus links: “Shoulda Run Him in the Ditch” and “Lexus Drivers” and “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
(Notes towards an Investigation)”