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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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7 years, 5 months ago

a collaboration between globalization and neoliberalism

The Great Regression that we are witnessing currently may be the product of a collaboration between the risks of globalization and neoliberalism. The problems that have arisen from the failure of politicians to exercise some control over global interdependence are impinging on societies that are …

—p.xiv The Great Regression Preface (x) by Heinrich Geiselberger
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in the Age of Austerity

[...] Unable to tackle the global causes of such challenges as immigration and terrorism or growing inequality at the national level, or to combat them with long-term strategies, more and more politicians rely on law and order at home, together with the promise to make their respective countries 'g…

—p.xi Preface (x) by Heinrich Geiselberger
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7 years, 5 months ago

capital has become so autonomous

Can we imagine civilization functioning in any recognizable form if we pull the plug on capital? We have reached a point where, far from conceptualizing a mode of life not dependent on capital as AI, we cannot even imagine a situation where capital’s power can be regulated; no country on earth is c…

—p.176 Power, Corruption, and Lies Oculus Grift (168) by Anis Shivani
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capital as AI

Governments all over the world are indulging in the same form of statistical imagination, as surpluses are directed away from public goods into handling debt—creating debt and paying it off—a never-ending cycle that has nothing to do with public policy as we have understood it. Time, space, and lif…

—p.179 Oculus Grift (168) by Anis Shivani
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the only sector that matters

And thanks to this same networked mutually reinforcing matrix of digital age capital, the traditional lessons of punctured asset bubbles also failed to take hold in the wake of the mortgage sector’s implosion. Capital demanded austerity, even as every sane measure of a sustainable mass recovery cal…

—p.171 Oculus Grift (168) by Anis Shivani