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Down and Out in Silicon Valley
Justin Tyler Clark reads the funny, frightening "Live Work Work Work Die."
Economics and Finance
Is Your Job a Bunch of B.S.?
Most corporate jobs exist not to create anything meaningful but to go through expected rituals. And most people know this instinctually.
Carceral Capitalism: A Conversation with Jackie Wang
M. Buna interviews Jackie Wang about her book, “Carceral Capitalism.”
High-Tech Bildungsroman: The Hysterical Optimism of Silicon Valley
On the cynical libertarianism of our high-tech Horatio Algers.
Human Rights and Neoliberalism
Nils Gilman offers a penetrating analysis of “Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World” by Samuel Moyn.
Delete Your Account: On the Theory of Platform Capitalism
The platform confuses capital-flow and social form, rearranging the relationship of profit to community and intelligence to organization.
Did Foucault Reinvent His History of Sexuality Through the Prism of Neoliberalism?
Daniel Zamora and Mitchell Dean draw parallels between Michel Foucault’s “History of Sexuality” and the rise of neoliberalism.
Stepping into the Void: A New Agenda for Global Labor
Pranab Bardhan suggests a way forward for the global working class.
Nomads
On Jessica Bruder's "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century."
An Excerpt from “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now”
Girshriela Green felt a weight lift from her shoulders when she founded Respect the Bump, an advocacy group for pregnant Walmart workers.
Banking Against (Black) Capitalism: On “The Color of Money”
Armond Towns and Carolyn Hardin considers Mehrsa Baradaran's recent book.
Radical Optimization: On “Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement”
On Carl Cederström and André Spicer's "Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement" and the obsession with optimization in a neoliberal world.
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