Category: USA
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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 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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Lynn Nottage: Political Economy Hidden in Plain Sight
The playwright Lynn Nottage. Political economy as drama crafted from reality.
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Chameleons or Charlatans: Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky. Three times exiled. Three times reinvented.
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PIG IRON: Dollar Hegemony: The Habit Nobody Can Quit
Essays in Political Economy: In Which we Explore Dollar Hegemony and Why it Might Change
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Ravens at the Hampstead Theatre review ***
Ravens: Spassky vs Fischer Hampstead Theatre, 18th December 2019 I can see why Tom Morton-Smith would have alighted on the infamous chess match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer in 1972 in Reykjavik. There are a ton of tomes on the subject and, after all, if it was good enough…
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Fairview at the Young Vic review ***
Fairview Young Vic Theatre, 11th December 2019 Fell like a bit of a fraud putting pen to paper on this. For, I confess, I did not completely understand Fairview. African-American playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for the play. The conceit is ingenious. A birthday dinner for…
