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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, 10 months ago

we lack a cognitive map

As a result, despite everything that has been written about capitalism, we still struggle to understand its dynamics and its mechanisms. Most importantly, we lack a ‘cognitive map’ of our socioeconomic system: a mental picture of how individual and collective human action can be situated within the…

—p.14 Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work Our Political Common Sense: Introducing Folk Politics (5) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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on folk politics

Against the abstraction and inhumanity of capitalism, folk politics aims to bring politics down to the ‘human scale’ by emphasising temporal, spatial and conceptual immediacy. At its heart, folk politics is the guiding intuition that immediacy is always better and often more authentic, with the cor…

—p.10 Our Political Common Sense: Introducing Folk Politics (5) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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our world has moved on

[...] As the common sense of today’s left, folk politics often operates intuitively, uncritically and unconsciously. Yet common sense is also historical and mutable. It is worth recalling that today’s familiar forms of organisation and tactics, far from being natural or pre-given, have instead been…

—p.10 Our Political Common Sense: Introducing Folk Politics (5) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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what has gone wrong?

[...] The recent cycle of struggles has to be identified as one of overarching failure, despite a multitude of small-scale successes and moments of large-scale mobilisation. The question that any analysis of the left today must grapple with is simply: What has gone wrong? It is undeniable that heig…

—p.9 Our Political Common Sense: Introducing Folk Politics (5) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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when will these sequences pay off

[...] Such protests are registered only in the minds of their participants, bypassing any transformation of social structures. While these efforts at radicalisation and awareness-raising are undoubtedly important to some degree, there still remains the question of exactly when these sequences mig…

—p.7 Our Political Common Sense: Introducing Folk Politics (5) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek