Link to an article by Slavoj Žižek:
“Transgender Dogma Is Naive and Incompatible with Freud”
Bonus links: “The Fall That Makes Us Like God, Part I” and Review of Lacan and Postfeminism and Seconds
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Yanis Varoufakis – “We Have Nothing to Lose but Our Debts”
Link to an interview with Yanis Varoufakis conducted by David Broder:
“We Have Nothing to Lose but Our Debts”
Bonus links: “Syriza Let Us Down — But We Can Still End Austerity” and “Greece: a Chronology From January 25, 2015 to 2019” and “Yanis Varoufakis: ‘Syriza Was a Bigger Blow to the Left Than Thatcher'”
Sharon Nelson – Yes, Alexa Does Eavesdrop on You!
Link to an article by Sharon Nelson:
Timothy Clark – The Hidden Argument in the Zizek/Peterson Debate, From a Competitive Debator
Link to an article by Timothy Clark:
“The Hidden Argument in the Zizek/Peterson Debate, From a Competitive Debator”
Russell Mokhiber – Laurent Cohen-Tanugi on Scapegoating in Corporate Crime Cases
Link to an article by Russell Mokhiber:
“Laurent Cohen-Tanugi on Scapegoating in Corporate Crime Cases”
Bonus link: The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
Joshua Sperber – Yelp and the Myth of Consumer Power
Link to an article by Joshua Sperber:
“Yelp and the Myth of Consumer Power”
Bonus links: C.T. Kurien, “The Market Economy: Theory, Ideology and Reality” and “Why the Western Media is Afraid of Julian Assange”
John Bellamy Foster – Absolute Capitalism
John Bellamy Foster:
It is possible to disagree with his formulation of “neoliberalism” (drawn from the unreliable Michel Foucault) and still gain insights for this analysis, including the historical overview. Though a bit more Gramsci would boost this analysis, plus maybe a dose of Bourdieu.
Iishana Artra – Is 5G Worth the Risks?
Link to an article by Iishana Artra:
Bonus links: “Controlling 5G: A Course in Obstacles” and “Group Calls on Citizens to Blow the Whistle on Motorola Cell Phone Safety Studies” and “How Big Wireless Lobbied Governments to Build 5G For Citizen Data Collection and Surveillance”
Kent Allen Halliburton – The American Civil War, 1854–1876
Link to an article by Kent Allen Halliburton:
Geoffrey Dutton – Talking Trash
Link to an article by Geoffrey Dutton:
“Talking Trash: Recycling Inches Up, But Problems Remain”
Curiously absent from this otherwise excellent discussion of the present-day facts about recycling practices in the USA is why municipalities are expected to submit to a “market” rather than intervening directly in it or circumventing/modifying it (as governments often do). Why shouldn’t municipalities create their own recycling entities and manufacturing facilities to bypass markets, or engage in more far-reaching bans (like an upstream ban on all materials that are not provably and practically recyclable)? The article simply tacitly accepts that municipal governments should look to private businesses and markets in significant ways, or simply treat private profitability as the uncrossable horizon of municipal politics, as if this is self-evident, which is precisely the goal of all political propaganda—“to annihilate an unnoticed possibility of the situation“.
Bonus links: “Recycling Crisis is Capitalist Business as Usual” and “It’s Time to Break Up Capitalism’s Love Affair With Plastic” and “Humanity Is Drowning in Plastic”