#astrataylor — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #astrataylor, aggregated by home.social.
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Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting "Billionaire Big Tech Agenda" (/Democracy Now!)
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Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting "Billionaire Big Tech Agenda" (/Democracy Now!)
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Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting "Billionaire Big Tech Agenda" (/Democracy Now!)
As the “supercharged” construction of new data centers to power artificial intelligence blankets the country, a growing resistance movement to these massive corporate projects amid a lack of public oversight is not far behind. As organizer Astra Taylor explains, local fights across the country are leveraging this “industry chokepoint” to force important questions, from the distribution of land, water and energy resources to democratic governance over an industry currently driven by a “billionaire Big Tech agenda.” While AI boosters frame the technology as inevitable, Taylor says, “I think that many people are more skeptical than that. … That’s part of what it means to have democratic governance over AI, to say, ’No, we don’t need this technology to take over every facet of our existence.’”
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Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting "Billionaire Big Tech Agenda" (/Democracy Now!)
As the “supercharged” construction of new data centers to power artificial intelligence blankets the country, a growing resistance movement to these massive corporate projects amid a lack of public oversight is not far behind. As organizer Astra Taylor explains, local fights across the country are leveraging this “industry chokepoint” to force important questions, from the distribution of land, water and energy resources to democratic governance over an industry currently driven by a “billionaire Big Tech agenda.” While AI boosters frame the technology as inevitable, Taylor says, “I think that many people are more skeptical than that. … That’s part of what it means to have democratic governance over AI, to say, ’No, we don’t need this technology to take over every facet of our existence.’”
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Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting "Billionaire Big Tech Agenda" (/Democracy Now!)
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Naomi Klein postet in ihrem Newsletter das Cover von End Times Fascism. Das Buch, das sie zusammen mit Astra Taylor schreibt, wird am 15. September erscheinen. Es ist aus dem Guardian-Artikel entstanden, über den ich hier vor einiger Zeit geschrieben habe. Gerade erst hat sie mit Ezra Klein über die Themen des Buchs diskutiert.
Ich bin auf das Buch gespannt – vor allem, weil Klein und Taylor die Themen der Spiegelwelt und des apokalyptischen Faschismus zusammen mit dem Kampf gegen die sich verschlimmernde Klimakatastrophe behandeln. In ihrem Newsletter schreibt Naomi Klein:
As we show via original reporting and analysis, internal conflicts and contradictions leave today’s far right intensely vulnerable to a new kind of “pro-life” politics, one that chooses the living world over robots and weapons and refuses to give up on the idea of a shared future.
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I only now found the time to properly read this:
"The rise of end times fascism by #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor"
Critical reading to know what we're up against.
(It would be good to explore how these narratives connect with the narratives that are embraced and pushed by Baudet and his FvD constituency).
#NaomiKlein #Fascism #EndTimesFascism #Guardian #TheGuardian
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I only now found the time to properly read this:
"The rise of end times fascism by #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor"
Critical reading to know what we're up against.
(It would be good to explore how these narratives connect with the narratives that are embraced and pushed by Baudet and his FvD constituency).
#NaomiKlein #Fascism #EndTimesFascism #Guardian #TheGuardian
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I only now found the time to properly read this:
"The rise of end times fascism by #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor"
Critical reading to know what we're up against.
(It would be good to explore how these narratives connect with the narratives that are embraced and pushed by Baudet and his FvD constituency).
#NaomiKlein #Fascism #EndTimesFascism #Guardian #TheGuardian
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I only now found the time to properly read this:
"The rise of end times fascism by #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor"
Critical reading to know what we're up against.
(It would be good to explore how these narratives connect with the narratives that are embraced and pushed by Baudet and his FvD constituency).
#NaomiKlein #Fascism #EndTimesFascism #Guardian #TheGuardian
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I only now found the time to properly read this:
"The rise of end times fascism by #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor"
Critical reading to know what we're up against.
(It would be good to explore how these narratives connect with the narratives that are embraced and pushed by Baudet and his FvD constituency).
#NaomiKlein #Fascism #EndTimesFascism #Guardian #TheGuardian
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Reading The Age of #Insecurity by #AstraTaylor in the backyard seems an appropriate and interesting way to spend a beautiful #LabourDay in #Toronto #book #books #BookSky
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La montée du fascisme de la fin des temps (2025)
https://www.informassue.tuxfamily.org/pages/soumission_autorite.php#naomi_klein_montee_fascisme_fin_des_temps
Un article de Naomi Klein et Astra Taylor devenu incontournable...#NaomiKlein #AstraTaylor #Fascisme #Ressources #Trump #Effondrement #Civilisation #ShockDoctrine
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La montée du #fascisme de la fin des temps
L'idéologie dominante de l' #extremedroite est devenue un survivalisme monstrueux, destructeur et suprématiste, expliquent Naomi Klein https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein et Astra Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Taylor dans un article récent devenu incontournable, dont Terrestres publie la traduction en français. Elles appellent à construire un mouvement suffisamment fort pour l'arrêter. https://www.terrestres.org/2025/07/16/la-montee-du-fascisme-de-la-fin-des-temps/
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It's heartening to listen to #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor talk about solidarity and their vision of the future. We've all got work to do :)
I was delighted to hear Astra Taylor bring up #anthropocentrism - I have long held the theory that our #speciesist/human-supremacist approach to life on earth is the slippery slope that supports the categorisation and "othering" of humans based on race, religion and nationality. To put it in #carnist terms, once you develop a taste (for othering), you can't stop.
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It's heartening to listen to #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor talk about solidarity and their vision of the future. We've all got work to do :)
I was delighted to hear Astra Taylor bring up #anthropocentrism - I have long held the theory that our #speciesist/human-supremacist approach to life on earth is the slippery slope that supports the categorisation and "othering" of humans based on race, religion and nationality. To put it in #carnist terms, once you develop a taste (for othering), you can't stop.
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It's heartening to listen to #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor talk about solidarity and their vision of the future. We've all got work to do :)
I was delighted to hear Astra Taylor bring up #anthropocentrism - I have long held the theory that our #speciesist/human-supremacist approach to life on earth is the slippery slope that supports the categorisation and "othering" of humans based on race, religion and nationality. To put it in #carnist terms, once you develop a taste (for othering), you can't stop.
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It's heartening to listen to #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor talk about solidarity and their vision of the future. We've all got work to do :)
I was delighted to hear Astra Taylor bring up #anthropocentrism - I have long held the theory that our #speciesist/human-supremacist approach to life on earth is the slippery slope that supports the categorisation and "othering" of humans based on race, religion and nationality. To put it in #carnist terms, once you develop a taste (for othering), you can't stop.
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It's heartening to listen to #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor talk about solidarity and their vision of the future. We've all got work to do :)
I was delighted to hear Astra Taylor bring up #anthropocentrism - I have long held the theory that our #speciesist/human-supremacist approach to life on earth is the slippery slope that supports the categorisation and "othering" of humans based on race, religion and nationality. To put it in #carnist terms, once you develop a taste (for othering), you can't stop.
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Essay by #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
Sun 13 Apr 2025
Original article:
https://t.co/VYiDZgCuHQArchived version:
https://archive.ph/4HOOG#LoveMotherEarth #CapitalismKills
#CorporateColonialism #Capitalism #ChristoFascism #FarRight #Fascism #WorldPol #USPol #EndTimesFascism
#Zionists #Fascists #BelieveInTheFuture
#Resistance #LoveYourMotherEarth -
Essay by #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
Sun 13 Apr 2025
Original article:
https://t.co/VYiDZgCuHQArchived version:
https://archive.ph/4HOOG#LoveMotherEarth #CapitalismKills
#CorporateColonialism #Capitalism #ChristoFascism #FarRight #Fascism #WorldPol #USPol #EndTimesFascism
#Zionists #Fascists #BelieveInTheFuture
#Resistance #LoveYourMotherEarth -
Essay by #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
Sun 13 Apr 2025
Original article:
https://t.co/VYiDZgCuHQArchived version:
https://archive.ph/4HOOG#LoveMotherEarth #CapitalismKills
#CorporateColonialism #Capitalism #ChristoFascism #FarRight #Fascism #WorldPol #USPol #EndTimesFascism
#Zionists #Fascists #BelieveInTheFuture
#Resistance #LoveYourMotherEarth -
Essay by #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
Sun 13 Apr 2025
Original article:
https://t.co/VYiDZgCuHQArchived version:
https://archive.ph/4HOOG#LoveMotherEarth #CapitalismKills
#CorporateColonialism #Capitalism #ChristoFascism #FarRight #Fascism #WorldPol #USPol #EndTimesFascism
#Zionists #Fascists #BelieveInTheFuture
#Resistance #LoveYourMotherEarth -
Essay by #NaomiKlein and #AstraTaylor
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
Sun 13 Apr 2025
Original article:
https://t.co/VYiDZgCuHQArchived version:
https://archive.ph/4HOOG#LoveMotherEarth #CapitalismKills
#CorporateColonialism #Capitalism #ChristoFascism #FarRight #Fascism #WorldPol #USPol #EndTimesFascism
#Zionists #Fascists #BelieveInTheFuture
#Resistance #LoveYourMotherEarth -
Featured essay The Rise of End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor is a must-read. A sharp warning on the far right’s supremacist survivalism—and the urgent need to resist. #EndTimes #Fascism #FarRight #NaomiKlein #AstraTaylor #SurvivalPolitics #Authoritarianism #Resistance #Guardian #MustRead https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk
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#DzeńZiemi #MollyCrabapple #NaomiKlein #AstraTaylor #Doikayt #Tutejszość #DzieńZiemi
W historycznych (powstałych "za ludzkiej pamięci") koloniach #LudyRdzenne, a co najmniej pamięć o nich, są ważnym probierzem naszej (tj. uogólnionych "ludzi białych") zmiany nastawienia do tych, których nasi przodkowie zdominowali i wyniszczyli. Jednak na terenach skolonizowanych w czasach prehistorycznych, gdzie migracje i kolonizacje odczytujemy z haplogrup i materiałów archeologicznych, fiksacja na "rdzenności" prowadzi do konfuzji czy wręcz nadużyć.
Z pomocą przychodzi "Doikayt" - tutejszość, którą, za Molly Crabapple, zaproponował @ayoub i Naomi Klein oraz Astra Taylor, które piszą:
We wschodniej Europie, przed faszystowską i stalinowską zagładą, żydowski socjalistyczny Związek Pracy zorganizował się wokół jidyszowej koncepcji Doikayt, czyli „tutejszości”. Molly Crabapple, która napisała (niebawem wychodzącą) książkę o tej zaniedbanej historii, definiuje Doikayt jako prawo do „walki o wolność i bezpieczeństwo w miejscach, w których żyli, wbrew wszystkim, którzy chcieli ich śmierci” − nie ucieczki do Palestyny lub Stanów Zjednoczonych.
Być może potrzebna jest współczesna uniwersalizacja tej koncepcji: przywiązanie do prawa do „tutejszości”, tej konkretnej chorej planety, do tych kruchych ciał, do prawa godnego życia w dowolnym miejscu na planecie, nawet jeśli nieuniknione wstrząsy zmuszają nas do przeprowadzki. „Tutejszość” może być przenośna, wolna od nacjonalizmu, zakorzeniona w solidarności, szanująca prawa tubylców i nieograniczona granicami.
Tutejszość, pozwala nam uniknąć fantazjowania o odwieczności, rdzenności i wyjątkowości naszych relacji z tym czy innym kawałkiem ekosystemu. Pozwala nam odetchnąć głęboko tu-i-teraz i spojrzeć na naszych bliźnich-sąsiadów jak na współgospodarzy, o równych nam prawach i obowiązkach wobec "wspólnego pastwiska". Od tego zaczyna się Wielka Zmiana, którą Klein i Taylor formułują za autorkami podcastu "How To Survive The End Of The World":W tym momencie, gdy faszyzm dni ostatecznych prowadzi wojnę na każdym froncie, nowe sojusze są niezbędne. Ale zamiast pytać: „Czy wszyscy podzielamy ten sam światopogląd?” Adrienne zachęca nas, byśmy zapytali: „Czy bije pani serce i czy planuje pani żyć? Proszę przejść tędy, a resztę ustalimy po drugiej stronie”.
Czego i nam wszystkim życzę (z lekkim opóźnieniem) z okazji Dnia Ziemi. -
>> Wenn unsere Medien was taugen würden, erschiene eine Übersetzung dieses Essays in den nächsten 7 Tagen bei Zeit oder Süddeutsche oder FAZ oder Spiegel oder Jacobin oder oder oder.
»Düster feierliche Schicksalsergebenheit kennzeichnet solchen Endzeit-Faschismus — als letzte Zuflucht für alle, denen es leichter fällt Zerstörung abzufeiern, statt sich ein Dasein ohne Vorherrschaft vorzustellen.«
#NaomiKlein #AstraTaylor
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk -
Markante Düster-#GroßraumPhantastik:
—Entsolidarisierung der Reichen
—deren Rückzug in neo-feudale ›Free Cities‹
—ganze Staaten im Preppermodus
—eskalierende Kontrolle und Ausgrenzung von ›Schwachen‹ durch Eugenische Renaissance
—Tabula-Rasa-Sehnsucht um Platz und Mittel für Eliten-Utopias zu sichern
—Sadismus-Pornos & -Erlaubnis als Belohnung für Gefolgschaft
—Büdnisse von Theo- & Technokarie-Fanbois damit Alte Welt schneller untergeht.
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#NaomiKlein #AstraTaylor
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCqBuIgD9q0
#AstraTaylor: 'It's Still Not Too Late for Biden to Deliver Deliver #DebtRelief '
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A while back I started this book, it’s extremely good, but dense and takes a lot of brain so I didn’t get too far. Starting back in because I think right now it’s what I need, maybe what the world needs. There are not simple solutions to our current predicament.
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Great talk with #AstraTaylor on seeing issues of #healthcare, #debt, and #inequality through the lens of "insecurity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rIyPE-bS-U
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@carapace The general question of how to combat China's surveillance regime, both internally and externally, is an interesting one.
Random thoughts whilst typing...
The growth differential may kick in. Something that's forgotten about many Communist states is that after an initial rapid period of industrialisation, stagnation set in. This occurred in the USSR and notably in North Korea (which was outperforming the South through the 1960s). China is of course a notable exception to the rule with absolutely unprecedented development for any country in world history, over the past 40 years or so. And by at least some measures China are no longer fast-following but are actively leapfrogging Western technology.
Why the Soviets didn't create the, or at least an Internet is a great episode covering by Tech Won't Save Us, 27 May 2021, with Benjamin Peters: https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/62_why_the_soviet_union_didnt_build_the_internet_w_benjamin_peters. Amongst other things, it shows that power-preservation behaviours are NOT exclusive to capitalist systems.
Brain drain. Creativity wants and seeks freedom generally, freedom from oppression most especially, and cheap rents. The number of ways different countries (or states/provinces) have killed their own golden geese is staggering. A big lesson for me is early-20th century Europe which was losing Jewish intelligentsia and gaining Black American talent (artistic and scientific) simultaneously, the former fleeing European anti-semitism, the latter US Jim Crow. Brain drain is interesting ... It's also a case of #GreshamsLaw, FWIW (differential compensation for a given product or capability).
Related, Stalinist Russia rather famously purged much of its own military leadership prior to WWII, on top of general antisemitic tendencies.
Creative antiauthoritarianism. Repressive practices tend to generate secret languages, multi-level communications, shadings of nuance and implication, etc. See Soviet-era humour, "Winnie the Pooh" in current China, etc. Unless monitoring systems become exceptionally good at extracting nuance (and they well might with LLM), that's going to confound efforts. It's also difficult to have a creative and innovative economy without at least some unfettered communications. The TWSU episode above also addresses this.
Data poisoning. I'm far less confident that this really will be effective. Chaffing in the light of overwhelming signals (where you are, as tracked by mobile devices and car plates, what you spend as tracked by payments systems, contact metadata for voice and text comms) is exceptionally difficult to mask.
An emerging civil rights culture. This is what occurred in the West: protections enshrined in law, protecting at least some classes of people. You can trace this back to the Magna Carta, which #AstraTaylor discusses in this year's #MasseyLecture Series (#CBCIdeas). The US Bill of Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, an EU's GDPR, and others. Problems are that these often exist in name only, as dead letters, or are entirely ignored for most of the world's population, to say nothing of backsliding, with growing authoritarianism in multiple countries (US, India, Brazil, Russia, Hungary, Turkey) and long-standing hold-outs (most of the Arab world, large portions of Africa, Myanmar, Iran, North Korea, etc.)
China has an interesting mix of both rapid industrialisation and technological development and retaining at least elements of an authoritarian state. Whether that's a temporary exception or a future indicator ... hard to say.
Prediction as is said is difficult. Particular about the future.
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As #Argentina and the #Netherlands elect leaders set on trashing the place, #Trump & his ilk plan more of the same for the US while Canada is headed towards a #PierrePoison government. In these lectures #AstraTaylor describes how #insecurity is driving us. "From rising inequality and declining mental health to climate change disasters and the threat of authoritarianism, insecurity has become a defining feature of our time"
https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/ideas/2023-cbc-massey-lectures-astra-taylor #CBC #cdnpoli #democracy #authoritarianism
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In a media landscape dominated by social media, we want everything to go viral, but small groups of well-organised people can have a larger impact than millions protesting in the streets or online.
In the 7th #reprogramming podcast we talk about #community. #MartaPeirano’s guest is #AstraTaylor, an international filmmaker, writer and political organiser.
👂 Listen at: https://aksioma.org/podcast/reprogramming
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The 10th edition of #tacticspractice in 2021 saw writer & tech journalist #MartaPeirano conduct a festival of conversations titled (re)programming: Strategies for Self-Renewal.
These discussions have now been adapted into a #podcast series. First episode airs tomorrow! 🤩
🎧 Tune in at https://aksioma.org/podcast
w/ #MartaPeirano #KimStanleyRobinson #BenjaminBratton #HollyJeanBuck #AnabJain #KateCrawford #JoanaMoll #AstraTaylor #EyalWeizman & special guests
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The 10th edition of #tacticspractice in 2021 saw writer & tech journalist #MartaPeirano conduct a festival of conversations titled (re)programming: Strategies for Self-Renewal.
These discussions have now been adapted into a #podcast series. First episode airs tomorrow! 🤩
🎧 Tune in at https://aksioma.org/podcast
w/ #MartaPeirano #KimStanleyRobinson #BenjaminBratton #HollyJeanBuck #AnabJain #KateCrawford #JoanaMoll #AstraTaylor #EyalWeizman & special guests
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The 10th edition of #tacticspractice in 2021 saw writer & tech journalist #MartaPeirano conduct a festival of conversations titled (re)programming: Strategies for Self-Renewal.
These discussions have now been adapted into a #podcast series. First episode airs tomorrow! 🤩
🎧 Tune in at https://aksioma.org/podcast
w/ #MartaPeirano #KimStanleyRobinson #BenjaminBratton #HollyJeanBuck #AnabJain #KateCrawford #JoanaMoll #AstraTaylor #EyalWeizman & special guests
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The Tyee: The Case for Radical Rest https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/10/02/Case-Radical-Rest/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #TheDaytheWorldStopsShoppingbook #TomWolfeMastersoftheUniverse #TheAgeofInsecuritybook #CharteroftheForest #COVID-19pandemic #Ju/’hoansipeople #J.B.MacKinnon #TriciaHersey #AstraTaylor #NapMinistry #radicalrest #AudreLorde #MagnaCarta #longCOVID
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The Tyee: The Case for Radical Rest https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/10/02/Case-Radical-Rest/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #TheDaytheWorldStopsShoppingbook #TomWolfeMastersoftheUniverse #TheAgeofInsecuritybook #CharteroftheForest #COVID-19pandemic #Ju/’hoansipeople #J.B.MacKinnon #TriciaHersey #AstraTaylor #NapMinistry #radicalrest #AudreLorde #MagnaCarta #longCOVID
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The Tyee: The Case for Radical Rest https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/10/02/Case-Radical-Rest/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #TheDaytheWorldStopsShoppingbook #TomWolfeMastersoftheUniverse #TheAgeofInsecuritybook #CharteroftheForest #COVID-19pandemic #Ju/’hoansipeople #J.B.MacKinnon #TriciaHersey #AstraTaylor #NapMinistry #radicalrest #AudreLorde #MagnaCarta #longCOVID
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The Tyee: The Case for Radical Rest https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/10/02/Case-Radical-Rest/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #TheDaytheWorldStopsShoppingbook #TomWolfeMastersoftheUniverse #TheAgeofInsecuritybook #CharteroftheForest #COVID-19pandemic #Ju/’hoansipeople #J.B.MacKinnon #TriciaHersey #AstraTaylor #NapMinistry #radicalrest #AudreLorde #MagnaCarta #longCOVID
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The Tyee: The Case for Radical Rest https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/10/02/Case-Radical-Rest/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #TheDaytheWorldStopsShoppingbook #TomWolfeMastersoftheUniverse #TheAgeofInsecuritybook #CharteroftheForest #COVID-19pandemic #Ju/’hoansipeople #J.B.MacKinnon #TriciaHersey #AstraTaylor #NapMinistry #radicalrest #AudreLorde #MagnaCarta #longCOVID
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This fantastic piece by Astra Taylor, whose book The Age of Insecurity is on my to-read list, is sadly behind a paywall. I managed to bypass it, which is why I’m excerpting so much in this post.
What I like is the separation of inequality from insecurity and the difference between existential insecurity from ‘manufactured’ insecurity. […]https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/08/23/structural-insecurity/
