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[...] In Graeber's interpretation [...] structural violence refers to the "forms of pervasive social inequality that are ultimately backed up by the threat of physical harm" that "invariably tend to create the kinds of willful blindness we normally associate with bureaucratic procedures. To put it …

[...] the rise of industrial capitalism was defined not only by new aesthetics in the field of mechanically reproduced culture, but also by the proliferation of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical anesthetics: methods by which proletarians could dull their torqued sensing bodies to survive the …

OxyCOntin and other prescription painkillers were widely prescribed by army doctors for the same reason that they were prescribed to athletes, financiers, surgeons, and traveling musicians on the home front: they allowed for the continued extraction of skilled and specialized labor time beyond the …

[...] In the neoliberal capitalist idiom, in the shadow of a system that is endlessly taking revenge on us in a myriad of ways we are invited to imagine our personal revenge in precisely the terms offered to us by that system. The bullied or fired worker dreams of becoming the boss. Indeed, the lat…

Capital expands endlessly and inevitably seeks to bring more and more aspects of the world into its orbit, but it also necessarily produces crises, first nad foremost for its exploited creators, proletarians, whose own reproduction is reduced to the barest minimum, and sometimes less than that. As …