Distributed Capitalism

Gee and Lankshear – The New Work Order: Critical Language Awareness and ‘Fast Capitalist’ Texts

Posted by justin on March 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Gee, James Paul, and Colin Lankshear.”The New Work Order: Critical Language Awareness and ‘Fast Capitalist’ Texts.” Discourse 16 (1995): 5‐19. “Fast capitalist” texts are texts written by business managers and consultants. These texts attempt to ease workers into the order of fast capitalism or the distributed workplace that Shoshanna Zuboff anticipates, others celebrate, and Deleuze and Haraway decry. These texts... Read More

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CCR760 – A World Without Bosses? : Distributed Capitalism & Net Work

Posted by justin on February 5, 2010 · 2 Comments

The first time I read through chapter five in Eileen’s class I became very, very frightened. I suppose my initial terror was directly tied to my now slowly deteriorating allegiance to Marxist modes of material production and the realities capitalist enterprise in the West’s progressively post-industrial age. The more and more I read about the changing nature of work in the 21st century – especially with respect to Zuboff’s... Read More

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music

New Music – 10/13/2011

Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal : Such amazingly wonderful, sweet, poppy goodness from this Reykjavik-based 6 piece. I especially appreciate the omnipresent accordion and loud shout-outs that occur throughout the album. I do wish the vocals were a bit more difficult to get at . . . but I suppose [...]

New Music – 9/14/2011

The Hylozoists – L’Île de Sept Villes: This 2009 effort from Toronto based instrumental collective is based on Paul Chaisson’s book The Island Of Seven Cities. After much archaeological research trouncing about in the wayfarlands of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Chaisson argues that a Chinese presence existed in North America long before the arrival of European [...]

New Music – 8/24/2011

The Dead Trees – Whatwave : A lot of pretty nice songs for late Summer on this release. The West Coast by way of Boston quartet is signed to the German Affairs of the Heart label (who also publishes the work of one of my faves Nik Freitas). So many good LA-based bands working for [...]