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Occupy and some tiny group of ingenious manipulators

The economy collapsed. Not because of the manipulations of some secret society of warrior monks, but because of a bunch of financial managers who, living in Nolan’s bubble world and sharing his assumptions about the endlessness of popular manipulability, turned out to be wrong. There was a mass pop…

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The Corporation Does Not Always Have To Win Albert Burneko - The Concourse

The ungrateful refugee: ‘We have no debt to repay’ by Dina Nayeri - The Guardian

What Would the Frankfurt School Think of Social Media? by Kumars Salehi - Verso Blog

An interview with Thomas Piketty LSE International Inequalities Institute Working Paper 1 - Medium

Ready Player One Finds The Bleak Limits Of Nostalgia Jeb Lund - The Concourse

The Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money' Raúl Carrillo & Jesse Myerson - Splinter

Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in by Andy Beckett - The Guardian

Citizen Thiel by Guy Patrick Cunningham - Los Angeles Review of Books

The Essentials of Socialist Writing by Vijay Prashad - Jacobin

The first step is admitting that you’re a worker by Jasmine Chorley Foster - The New Pretender

Digital Proudhonism by Gavin C Mueller - b2o

Two-Faced by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

Code of Conduct by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

Plenty in an age of scarcity by Richard Seymour - Patreon

When humanity doesn't rock by Richard Seymour - Patreon

Chasing Utopias by Sam Gindin - Jacobin

The Disruptors: An Interview with J. W. Mason by J. W. Mason - Jacobin

What has happened to Britain's ruling class? by Richard Seymour - Patreon

You Only Run For the Border When You See the Whole City Running As Well by Vijay Prashad - Tricontinental

The Illegitimacy of the Ruling Class by Thea Riofrancos - In These Times

Rhetoric, Responsibility, & the Problem of the Political: Some thoughts after reading Andrew O’Hagan on Grenfell Tower - New Socialist

Everything Is Embarrassing: On Loving The National by Helena Fitzgerald - NYLON

Super Position by David Graeber - The New Inquiry

Hurt People by Bobby London - The New Inquiry

Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child by Mal Ahern, Moira Weigel - The New Inquiry

Dear Fuck-Up: How do you live when everything sucks? by Brandy Jensen - The Outline

There is no such thing as being ready for love by Helena Fitzgerald - The Outline

I miss you by Shady Sands - Team Liquid

How to Say You Maybe Don’t Want to Be Married Anymore Sarah Bregel takes a close look at her marriage after two kids, and wonders, how hard is too hard? - Longreads

Alberto Toscano: Solidarity and Political Work by Alberto Toscano - Historical Materialism

Me and My Shadow by Jane Tompkins - MISC

scaffolding by Helena Fitzgerald - Griefbacon

Book chapters (261)

Preface by Adam S. Miller - The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction

A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Little expressionless animals by David Foster Wallace - Girl with Curious Hair

Disrupt the Citizen by n+1 - Bottoms Up

Democracy fatigue by Arjun Appadurai - The Great Regression

Trotsky and the Wild Orchids by Richard M. Rorty - Philosophy and Social Hope

Big Red Son by David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Forever Overhead by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Federer Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing by David Foster Wallace - The David Foster Wallace Reader

The Prelude: Redistribution, Inequality and Debt Crisis by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann - Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction

On Satire The Editors - The Point Issue 14

Africa's Leaky Giant by Joe Trapido - New Left Review 92

Borderland by Stathis Kouvelakis - New Left Review 110

§1 by David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

War Games by Scott Beauchamp - The Baffler No. 39 - The Organization of Hatreds

Fear Factor by Tom Carson - Power, Corruption, and Lies

White Indians by n+1 - n+1 Issue 16: Double Bind

Society as Checkpoint by n+1 - n+1 Issue 32: Bad Faith

Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style by Richard Seymour - Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen

Socialism for Realists by Sam Gindin - Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3

Available Light - Salvage #5: Contractions

The neoliberal revolution by Stuart Hall - The Neoliberal Revolution

The Power of a Dollar by Milford Bateman - Uneven and Combined

Looking for a Garde of Which to Be Avant: An Interview with David Foster Wallace Hugh Kennedy and Geoﬀrey Polk / 1993 - Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Project Runway How to build a better failure. - Failure (Logic #5)

Chapter Two by Terry Eagleton - Why Marx Was Right

Bad Atrocity Writing by n+1 - n+1 Issue 32: Bad Faith

What if you held a protest and everyone came? by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Escape from the Tropic of Squalor by Mary Karr - Lit

The Cleric of Treason by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

We Keep You Alive by Lizzie O'Shea - The Baffler #50: The New Booboisie

The Trump Way by Jacobin - Journey to the Dark Side

Perfection by Sarah Manguso - The Paris Review Issue 233

Slavery Is Everywhere by Brianna Rennix, Oren Nimni - The Current Affairs Mindset: Essays on People, Politics, and Culture

Chapter 2 by D.T. Max - Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen - Farther Away

The Book by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann - Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction

Behold Us Two Boys Sitting Together - ZYZZYVA Issue No. 118 The Anniversary Issue

Victory Over the Sun by Connor Kilpatrick - Earth, Wind, & Fire

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4 to 5 star sections/books, tagged notes, etc. For writing inspiration.

The Corporation Does Not Always Have To Win

Albert Burneko - The Concourse

The ungrateful refugee: ‘We have no debt to repay’

by Dina Nayeri - The Guardian

What Would the Frankfurt School Think of Social Media?

by Kumars Salehi - Verso Blog

An interview with Thomas Piketty

LSE International Inequalities Institute Working Paper 1 - Medium

Ready Player One Finds The Bleak Limits Of Nostalgia

Jeb Lund - The Concourse

The Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money'

Raúl Carrillo & Jesse Myerson - Splinter

Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in

by Andy Beckett - The Guardian

Citizen Thiel

by Guy Patrick Cunningham - Los Angeles Review of Books

The Essentials of Socialist Writing

by Vijay Prashad - Jacobin

The first step is admitting that you’re a worker

by Jasmine Chorley Foster - The New Pretender

Digital Proudhonism

by Gavin C Mueller - b2o

Two-Faced

by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

Code of Conduct

by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

Plenty in an age of scarcity

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

When humanity doesn't rock

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

Chasing Utopias

by Sam Gindin - Jacobin

The Disruptors: An Interview with J. W. Mason

by J. W. Mason - Jacobin

What has happened to Britain's ruling class?

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

You Only Run For the Border When You See the Whole City Running As Well

by Vijay Prashad - Tricontinental

The Illegitimacy of the Ruling Class

by Thea Riofrancos - In These Times

Rhetoric, Responsibility, & the Problem of the Political: Some thoughts after reading Andrew O’Hagan on Grenfell Tower

- New Socialist

Everything Is Embarrassing: On Loving The National

by Helena Fitzgerald - NYLON

Super Position

by David Graeber - The New Inquiry

Hurt People

by Bobby London - The New Inquiry

Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child

by Mal Ahern, Moira Weigel - The New Inquiry

Dear Fuck-Up: How do you live when everything sucks?

by Brandy Jensen - The Outline

There is no such thing as being ready for love

by Helena Fitzgerald - The Outline

I miss you

by Shady Sands - Team Liquid

How to Say You Maybe Don’t Want to Be Married Anymore

Sarah Bregel takes a close look at her marriage after two kids, and wonders, how hard is too hard? - Longreads

Alberto Toscano: Solidarity and Political Work

by Alberto Toscano - Historical Materialism

Me and My Shadow

by Jane Tompkins - MISC

scaffolding

by Helena Fitzgerald - Griefbacon

Preface

by Adam S. Miller - The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction

A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism

by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Little expressionless animals

by David Foster Wallace - Girl with Curious Hair

Disrupt the Citizen

by n+1 - Bottoms Up

Democracy fatigue

by Arjun Appadurai - The Great Regression

Trotsky and the Wild Orchids

by Richard M. Rorty - Philosophy and Social Hope

Big Red Son

by David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Forever Overhead

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Federer Both Flesh and Not

by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing

by David Foster Wallace - The David Foster Wallace Reader

The Prelude: Redistribution, Inequality and Debt Crisis

by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann - Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction

On Satire

The Editors - The Point Issue 14

Africa's Leaky Giant

by Joe Trapido - New Left Review 92

Borderland

by Stathis Kouvelakis - New Left Review 110

§1

by David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

War Games

by Scott Beauchamp - The Baffler No. 39 - The Organization of Hatreds

Fear Factor

by Tom Carson - Power, Corruption, and Lies

White Indians

by n+1 - n+1 Issue 16: Double Bind

Society as Checkpoint

by n+1 - n+1 Issue 32: Bad Faith

Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style

by Richard Seymour - Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen

Socialism for Realists

by Sam Gindin - Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3

Available Light

- Salvage #5: Contractions

The neoliberal revolution

by Stuart Hall - The Neoliberal Revolution

The Power of a Dollar

by Milford Bateman - Uneven and Combined

Looking for a Garde of Which to Be Avant: An Interview with David Foster Wallace

Hugh Kennedy and Geoﬀrey Polk / 1993 - Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Project Runway

How to build a better failure. - Failure (Logic #5)

Chapter Two

by Terry Eagleton - Why Marx Was Right

Bad Atrocity Writing

by n+1 - n+1 Issue 32: Bad Faith

What if you held a protest and everyone came?

by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Escape from the Tropic of Squalor

by Mary Karr - Lit

The Cleric of Treason

by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

We Keep You Alive

by Lizzie O'Shea - The Baffler #50: The New Booboisie

The Trump Way

by Jacobin - Journey to the Dark Side

Perfection

by Sarah Manguso - The Paris Review Issue 233

Slavery Is Everywhere

by Brianna Rennix, Oren Nimni - The Current Affairs Mindset: Essays on People, Politics, and Culture

Chapter 2

by D.T. Max - Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

Farther Away

by Jonathan Franzen - Farther Away

The Book

by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann - Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction

Behold Us Two Boys Sitting Together

- ZYZZYVA Issue No. 118 The Anniversary Issue

Victory Over the Sun

by Connor Kilpatrick - Earth, Wind, & Fire

Spadework

by Alyssa Battistoni - n+1 Issue 34: Head Case

The Undertakers of Silicon Valley

by Adrian Daub - Failure (Logic #5)

Goodbye, Cold War

by Aziz Rana - n+1 Issue 30: Motherland

Final Fantasy

by James Duesterberg - The Point Issue 14

With Strings Attached

by Melisa Handl and Susan Spronk - Uneven and Combined

An Expanded Interview with David Foster Wallace

Larry McCaﬀery / 1993 - Conversations with David Foster Wallace