democracy
It can’t happen here
Dear friends,
It is happening here. The polarisation, the extremism, growing xenophobia and racism, anti-intellectualism, hatred, violence and climate-denialism. These
Aidan Cornelius-Bell
Kaurna Yarta
I’m a social scientist and activist looking to create systemic change that serves the proletariat. I care about compassion, justice, genuine equity, reciprocity and radical social change.
the economy
“For the economic policies”: the reason you may no longer have any rights
Dear friends,
I accidentally engaged with some US election coverage in the last 24 hours. Amidst flitting between various streaming
youth culture
Singing gently to my soul: on youth alienation and precarity under late capitalism
Dear friends,
What the heck do I have in store for you today? Well naturally I have been enjoying pop
innovation
On forestalled innovation
Dear friends,
I spent a little of my time today listening to other contemporary Marxists [1] – and then wondering about
psychology
Cognitive bias, attribute substitution and politics
Dear friends,
Astute stalkers amongst you may remember some 14 years ago I made a YouTube video by the same
Climate denial
Grim realities, emancipatory futures
Dear friends,
We live in existentially challenging times – between actively unfolding western-backed genocides on several fronts, growingly desperate climate emergencies
assimilation
Assimilation and rebellion
Dear friends,
An attendee at a presentation I gave once said to me “it seems you just truly wish to
ecology
Making meaning at the end of time
Dear friends,
I have been necessarily pondering “end times” – conceptually a troubling thought. We’re seeing the slow motion collapse
artificial intelligence
They’re telling us what’s next
Dear friends,
We’re not listening, but the oligarchs are signalling the next phase of climate denialism. We’ve talked
anarcho-syndicalism
The struggle for liberation, perils of individualism, and radical praxis
Dear friends,
I have been pondering the theoretical landscape of anarchism, particularly anarcho-syndicalism, and its tensions and harmony with Marxist
slow
Productively “slow,” or just bourgeois?
Dear friends,
I am fortunate to hold a role which affords me the ability to take leave. And gladly, I
AI
The “power” of AI
Dear friends,
Today I have some off the cuff thoughts about global heat death – revisiting an early theme (actually, the
identity politics
(im)possibility politics
Dear friends,
I’ve been continuing to ponder the nature of identity politics, the flexibility of superstructural systems, and the
AI futures
Our future: The AI panopticon
Dear friends,
Do you ever find yourself thinking that the billionaire capitalist class, bloated on the extracted value from wage-slaves,
work
On burnout
Dear friends,
Today I have been contemplating burnout.
Workers under contemporary fast capitalism are, like machines, left on piles of
your friendly neofascist government
Alienating the young people
Dear friends,
The ALP has announced new legislature being developed to ban young people from social media at an arbitrary
spider man
Spidey senses, public health, and capital
Dear friends,
Today I ingested some media – what a gross way to say it – about the role and nature of
sociopathy and capitalism
Are we moving closer to the sociopath strata?
Dear friends,
What a week in the world. I wonder if there will be a time where we can say
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