Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to an excerpt from the book The End of Imagination (2016) by Arundhati Roy:
“The NGO-ization of Resistance”
Bonus links: “Social Service or Social Change?” and “How Corporate Power Converted Wealth Into Philanthropy for Social Control” and “The Joy of Inequality: The Libidinal Economy of Compassionate Consumerism” and “Preferring Zizek’s Bartleby Politics”
Link to an interview with Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (2018), conducted by Sam Adler-Bell:
Bonus links: “The Left Hand and the Right Hand of the State” and I, Daniel Blake and Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare and The State and Revolution and “How to Make a Pencil” and “Welcome to the Black Box” and “Can Algorithms Violate Fair Housing Laws?” and “From Killing Privacy to Killing Democracy” and “Algorithmic Accountability” and “Love in the Age of Data” and “algorithmic despotism” and Mathwashing and Mladen Dolar on “University Discourse”
Link to an essay by Marcel Liebman & Ralph Miliband:
The tiresome critique of Leninism this essay contains is superficial (and wrong), but the rest is interesting.
Bonus links: Crowds and Party, Lenin 2017, Revolution at the Gates
Link to an article by Lester Spence:
“Why Baltimore Doesn’t Heat Its Schools”
Bonus links: “The Left Hand and the Right Hand of the State” and Liberalism: A Counter-History and “Corporate Welfare Is Draining Baltimore”
Link to an article by Richard Seymour:
Bonus links: Winston Churchill With Mohawk and “Victory Day: Western Narrative of World War II ‘Falsifies History'” and “A View from Livadia Palace” and “A People’s History of Churchillian Madness” and “That Time Churchill Wanted to Start World War III, Before World War II was Even Over”
Link to an article by Alexander Livingston & Ed Quish:
Link to an article by Mazda Majidi:
“What to Make of Iran’s Demonstrations”
Bonus link: “Behind the Iran Protests”
Link to an article by Matt Novak:
“The Untold Story of the Teen Hackers Who Transformed the Early Internet”
Link to an article by Anton Jäger:
Bonus links: “Understanding Populism” and “Against the Populist Temptation” and In Defense of Lost Causes
Bonus Quote: “Populism is ultimately sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry ‘I don’t know what’s going on, but I’ve just had enough of it! It cannot go on! It must stop!'” First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
