Category: Alienation
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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 Ideal Is Not in the Head
The demonstration of what is at stake when thought loses its friction with reality and becomes a closed loop of self-confirming categories.
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PIG IRON 9: The Narrative Problem
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In which we set out how the Left should tell its story
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PIG IRON: Capital is Forcing Labour To Go On Strike
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In Which we Explore AI and the Demand Deficit Contradiction
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The Machinery Considering Itself
A non-specialist’s attempt to climb the ladder from chemistry to behaviour — and understand what it means for the rest of our political and cultural economy project
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What’s the Big Idea
A list of thinkers whose ideas do most to inform this blog.
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PIG IRON: Pete and Bernie’s Philosophical Steakhouse
In which Alan Partridge goes to Paris, eats a testicle, and unknowingly demonstrates everything this series has been arguing.
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The Stochastic Parrot and the Armchair Progressive
On AI, the commodification of thought, and why the machine that embodies the problem might also illuminate the argument.
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PIG IRON 3: Alienation, or Why He Feels Like a Tourist at Home
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 3: In which we explore the defining contradiction: Alienation
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PIG IRON 1: How Money Works
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 1: In which we attempt to explain what money is.
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PIG IRON 0: What This Is
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 0: In which we explain what this is for.
