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on jobless recoveries

In addition to precarity, surplus populations and technological automation help to make sense of a recent labour market phenomenon: the emergence of ‘jobless recoveries’, in which economic growth returns after a crisis but job growth remains anaemic. [...] While their cause is ultimately still a my…

—p.95 Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work The Future Isn’t Working (85) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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to maximise synthetic freedom

[...] A primary aim of a postcapitalist world would therefore be to maximise synthetic freedom, or in other words, to enable the flourishing of all of humanity and the expansion of our collective horizons. Achieving this involves at least three different elements: the provision of the basic necessi…

—p.79 Left Modernity (69) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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the very real desires of the population

At the same time, we should recognise that this production of subjectivity was not simply an external imposition. Hegemony, in all its forms, operates not as an illusion, but as something that builds on the very real desires of the population. Neoliberal hegemony has played upon ideas, yearnings an…

—p.64 Why Are They Winning? The Making of Neoliberal Hegemony (51) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek