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__What distinguishes capitalism from pre-capitalist systems is not the mere existence of capital, but rather its social function. In pre-capitalist societies, the processes governed by the logic of capital were always marginal to social reproduction.__ From the sixteenth century onwards, however, a fundamental transformation took place: the logic of capital began to weave itself into the very fabric of social life, eventually reaching the point where people had become dependent upon it for their survival. Capital became ‘the all-dominating economic power’, or, put differently: society became capitalist.
Mute Compulsion
Søren Mau
How do you let things run out of control and still pretend to be steering them in the right direction? You invent something like overshoot: the idea that business as usual can continue for another while and then we will set the course straight by reversing it.
Overshoot
Wim Carton, Andreas Malm
What kind of people do our students want to be? Who do we want to help them become? In the age of employability, we are at risk of spending so much effort trying to divine what the employers want that we forget to wonder what we want ourselves.
Employability Is an Ethical Issue
timeshighereducation.com
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