Category: Power
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PIG IRON 7: Learning to Think
Essays in Political Economy: In Which we Set Out the Framework for Learning to Think
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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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The Stuff of Dreams and Exploitation: The Case Study – Venice
Empire, trade, beauty, corruption, the sublime, the long death, and the circle closing
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PIG IRON 5: Against the Mythology of Mr Market
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In which we set out what markets really are
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The Stuff of Dreams and Exploitation: The Co-option of Black music by a White industry
In which we outline a century of economic extraction dressed as cultural appreciation
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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 4: Who Gets To Decide
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In which we start to lay out some possibilities
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A History of British Architecture: Dissolution, Civil War, Empire and the Making of British Exceptionalism
A meander through the history of British Architecture. Some thoughts on what informs the ideological framework which explains all the subsequent architectural development.
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 