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Managerialism has become the pretext for creating a new covert form of feudalism, where wealth and position are allocated not on economic but political grounds—or rather, where every day it’s more difficult to tell the difference between what can be considered “economic” and what is “political.”
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
For Sennett then, contemporary consumption is all about theatre: objects evolved to offer the consumer desires and capabilities that are capable of not just buttressing a sense of self, but of actually stretching the boundaries according to which the self operates. Work becomes a focal point for this way of thinking. It becomes a form of consumption itself. A form of self-consumption, in fact, in which work is less about meeting organisational goals and more about exceeding personal ones.
The Experience Society
Steven Miles
As Guardian economics editor Larry Elliot observes, there has rarely been any admission from ‘the IMF or World Bank that the policies they advocated during the heyday of the so-called Washington Consensus – austerity, privatisation and financial liberalisation – have contributed to weak and unequal growth, with all the political discontent that this has caused.’ The lack of institutional soul-searching at these organizations post 2008 is a sort of strategic ignorance, and in recent years, academics have published accounts of ‘institutional ignorance’ at the IMF.
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
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