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full-time Google employees doing the same thing as contractors topic/contractors

Google uses contract labor, in a manner similar to Amazon; to save money on labor by making employees as disposable as possible. 'People would be asked to leave at a day's notice,' said Danielle. 'We were employed through a subcontractor company and they reserved the right to terminate at any time …

—p.27 A People's History of Silicon Valley A trip around Silicon Valley (16) by Keith A. Spencer
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the proper relationship to the past advice/living

[...] can the political impulses that Harris represents, the ones that come out of our generation’s distinctive experience, mature into potent collectivity? Or are they individualist from the root, bound to decay into posture and then a racket—absent the guidance of more seasoned activists, or with…

—p.169 n+1 Issue 30: Motherland On millennials (165) by Gabriel Winant
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the summer grew dark inspo/interiority

There are moments when the mask slips, when his failure to truly engage with the humanity of the victims and survivors shines through. He often appeals to a ‘we’ that is all too clearly a cypher for his own responses to the event. “All over Britain, the sight of the burning tower gave people a horr…

New Socialist Rhetoric, Responsibility, & the Problem of the Political: Some thoughts after reading Andrew O’Hagan on Grenfell Tower missing author
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the glacial surfaces of the depressive's world inspo/misc

One difference between sadness and depression is that, while sadness apprehends itself as a contingent and temporary state of affairs, depression presents itself as necessary and interminable: the glacial surfaces of the depressive's world extend to every conceivable horizon. In the depths of the c…

—p.464 K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher The Privatisation of Stress (461) by Mark Fisher
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movement is an inherent condition of our indebtedness

Thus ‘migrant subjectivity’ under capitalism is a false category that naturalises borders and national citizenship. By forgetting the ways in which capitalism forces us to be on the move as a systemic condition, we create and reinforce relations of hierarchy and inequality between people that are c…

—p.173 Salvage #5: Contractions ‘With or Without You’: Naturalising Migrants and the Never-Ending Tragedy of Liberalism (161) missing author