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The Collapse: Bluff, Call or Raise
A story about what happens when capital figures out that the thing it was paying for (hands, legs, eyes in awkward places) doesn’t have to be replaced to be priced down. It only has to be threatened.
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The Collapse: Who Answers for the Machine?
A story about what happens when a profession figures out that the thing its clients were paying for — the reading, the drafting, the hours — never actually required a person, but the thing they were really paying for still does: someone to carry the can.
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Empire: The Tax That Became Rent
In which we examine the political economy of why pre-modern empires ended.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 4
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of platform capitalism and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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The Machinery of Legitimation III
How the machinery of legitimation is unravelling in the two most important democracies: the US and India.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 3
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of the surveillance economy and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 2
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of the surveillance economy and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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The Concentrator’s Dilemma: Part 1
In which we examine the contradictions within the political economy of the surveillance economy and AI. And where this might end. Or indeed begin.
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Lynn Nottage: Political Economy Hidden in Plain Sight
The playwright Lynn Nottage. Political economy as drama crafted from reality.
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