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Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism
by John Patrick Leary
May 21, 2019 - May 26, 2019 (read/capitalism-etc)

Patrick Leary, J. (2019). Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism. Haymarket Books.


Haymarket Books, 2019. 265 pages. Paperback. 9781608469628

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p.161
soporific »
(adjective) causing or tending to cause sleep / (…
p.133
elision »
(linguistics) the omission of a sound or syllable…
p.113
mien »
(noun) air or bearing especially as expressive of…
p.100
scabrous »
(adjective) difficult knotty / (adjective) ; roug…
p.68
eschatology »
the part of theology concerned with death, judgme…
p.158
financialisation and the sharing economy
If the technology behind the sharing economy is n…
p.153
responsible for becoming more resilient
[...] NAFTA and American agribusiness are treated…
p.136
Blair had missed the point of meritocracy
[...] As Young himself wrote in a 2001 essay depl…
p.112
in terms of an actuarial calculation
[...] Another advantage to employers of treating …
p.103
defying the odds is, by definition, improbable
[...] defying the odds is, by definition, improba…

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Accountability

he defines it as a "technocratic ideal of justice, limited by the authority and prerogative of the bureaucracies to which one is held accountable"

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Accountability

he defines it as a "technocratic ideal of justice, limited by the authority and prerogative of the bureaucracies to which one is held accountable"

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Artisanal

without "structural reforms of the economic system", artisanal consumption becomes merely a "niche market for middle-class buyers"

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Artisanal

without "structural reforms of the economic system", artisanal consumption becomes merely a "niche market for middle-class buyers"

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Brand

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Choice

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Coach

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Content

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Design

nice critique of design thinking here:

these solutions are unmoored from a political program that might address the inequities that make them necessary in the first place. This is a perspective encouraged by imagining resource problems as design problems. It's a perspective that depoliticizes scarcity, treating it as a technical problem rather than one of resource inequality or exploitation

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Design

nice critique of design thinking here:

these solutions are unmoored from a political program that might address the inequities that make them necessary in the first place. This is a perspective encouraged by imagining resource problems as design problems. It's a perspective that depoliticizes scarcity, treating it as a technical problem rather than one of resource inequality or exploitation

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DIY

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Fail

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Free

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Grit

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Hack

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Lean

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Maker

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Market

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Nimble

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Outcome

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assion

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Pivot

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Robust

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Share

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Smart

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Synergy

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