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This new analysis is one that focuses not on the deployment of labor potentiality, but an incision into the laborer, their value, and their—importantly—abilities. This is the theory of human capital, a term we often hear but rarely actually discuss the content or strategic function of.
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
RevoltingBodies
We are all, in some way, damaged by this world, soon to be damaged by it, and/or causing damage. Like everything else we project onto the other, injury and disability will not stay “over there”; they will eventually come for us—our bodies, our families, our beloved places. If we fail to build infrastructures of care, the cruelties and derangements of the Covid era will be only the barest glimpse of the barbarism to come.
Emerson writes: I grasp the hands of those next me, and take my place in the ring to suffer and to work, taught by an instinct, that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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