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People are rewarded with large financial bonuses and promotions for academic and business trips, and therefore learn to crave them, and to crow about how many they’ve been on. The assumption is that travel is automatically fun, worthwhile, and enviable: a status symbol. But really all that’s happen…

—p.164 Power, Corruption, and Lies The Lost Art of Staying Put (158) by Lucy Ellmann

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this interpreter doesn't perform "interpretations" in a hermeneutic sense of semantic text explication

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scaffolding by Helena Fitzgerald - Griefbacon

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

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

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

The Essentials of Socialist Writing by Vijay Prashad - Jacobin

Chasing Utopias by Sam Gindin - Jacobin

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

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

Me and My Shadow by Jane Tompkins - MISC

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

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

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

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

Plenty in an age of scarcity by Richard Seymour - Patreon

When humanity doesn't rock by Richard Seymour - Patreon

Code of Conduct by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

Two-Faced by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

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

I miss you by Shady Sands - Team Liquid

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

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

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

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

Super Position by David Graeber - The New Inquiry

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

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

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

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

Digital Proudhonism by Gavin C Mueller - b2o

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Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek - #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader

Reflections on the Manifesto by Antonio Negri - #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader

E Unibus Pluram by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Getting Away From Already Pretty Much Being Away From It All by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

David Lynch Keeps His Head by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

The death of tragedy by Susan Sontag - Against Interpretation and Other Essays

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

From The House of the Dead by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Killing Time by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Ancient Glittering Eyes by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

The Tongues of Man by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Lifehacker: Tarek Loubani on 3D-Printing in Gaza by Logic Magazine - Bodies (Logic #8)

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

Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

The Nature of the Fun by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Just Asking by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Disrupt the Citizen by n+1 - Bottoms Up

Triumph of the Shill by Corey Robin - Bottoms Up

Fairouz in Exile Life after Syria - Bottoms Up

On Literary Studies by Marco Roth - Bottoms Up

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

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

The Depressed Person by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

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

Octet by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Adult World (I) by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Church Not Made With Hands by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

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

On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, The Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon 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?

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

October 6, 1979: 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything' by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

All that is solid melts into PR: Market Stalinism and bureaucratic anti-production by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

'...if you can watch the overlap of one reality with another': capitalist realism as dreamwork and memory disorder by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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

Management-By-Stress by Mike Parker - Catalyst Vol. 1 No. 2

The New "Culture of Poverty" by Chris Maisano - Catalyst Vol. 1 No. 2

The Workers Have No Europe by Cédric Durand - Catalyst Vol. 1 No. 4

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

scaffolding

by Helena Fitzgerald - Griefbacon

Alberto Toscano: Solidarity and Political Work

by Alberto Toscano - Historical Materialism

The Illegitimacy of the Ruling Class

by Thea Riofrancos - In These Times

The Disruptors: An Interview with J. W. Mason

by J. W. Mason - Jacobin

The Essentials of Socialist Writing

by Vijay Prashad - Jacobin

Chasing Utopias

by Sam Gindin - Jacobin

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

Citizen Thiel

by Guy Patrick Cunningham - Los Angeles Review of Books

Me and My Shadow

by Jane Tompkins - MISC

An interview with Thomas Piketty

LSE International Inequalities Institute Working Paper 1 - Medium

Everything Is Embarrassing: On Loving The National

by Helena Fitzgerald - NYLON

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

- New Socialist

What has happened to Britain's ruling class?

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

Plenty in an age of scarcity

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

When humanity doesn't rock

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

Code of Conduct

by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

Two-Faced

by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

The Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money'

Raúl Carrillo & Jesse Myerson - Splinter

I miss you

by Shady Sands - Team Liquid

Ready Player One Finds The Bleak Limits Of Nostalgia

Jeb Lund - The Concourse

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

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

by Andy Beckett - The Guardian

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

Super Position

by David Graeber - The New Inquiry

The first step is admitting that you’re a worker

by Jasmine Chorley Foster - The New Pretender

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

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

by Vijay Prashad - Tricontinental

What Would the Frankfurt School Think of Social Media?

by Kumars Salehi - Verso Blog

Digital Proudhonism

by Gavin C Mueller - b2o

Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics

by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek - #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader

Reflections on the Manifesto

by Antonio Negri - #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader

E Unibus Pluram

by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Getting Away From Already Pretty Much Being Away From It All

by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

David Lynch Keeps His Head

by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness

by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

The death of tragedy

by Susan Sontag - Against Interpretation and Other Essays

The Cleric of Treason

by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

From The House of the Dead

by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Killing Time

by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Ancient Glittering Eyes

by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

The Tongues of Man

by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Lifehacker: Tarek Loubani on 3D-Printing in Gaza

by Logic Magazine - Bodies (Logic #8)

Federer Both Flesh and Not

by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young

by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress

by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

The Nature of the Fun

by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Just Asking

by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Disrupt the Citizen

by n+1 - Bottoms Up

Triumph of the Shill

by Corey Robin - Bottoms Up

Fairouz in Exile

Life after Syria - Bottoms Up

On Literary Studies

by Marco Roth - Bottoms Up

A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Forever Overhead

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

The Depressed Person

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Octet

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Adult World (I)

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Church Not Made With Hands

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, The Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon

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?

What if you held a protest and everyone came?

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

October 6, 1979: 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything'

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

All that is solid melts into PR: Market Stalinism and bureaucratic anti-production

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

'...if you can watch the overlap of one reality with another': capitalist realism as dreamwork and memory disorder

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

Marxist Supernanny

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

Management-By-Stress

by Mike Parker - Catalyst Vol. 1 No. 2

The New "Culture of Poverty"

by Chris Maisano - Catalyst Vol. 1 No. 2

The Workers Have No Europe

by Cédric Durand - Catalyst Vol. 1 No. 4

Socialism for Realists

by Sam Gindin - Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3

Ideas Without Power

by Aaron Major - Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3

The Strike as the Ultimate Structure Test

by Jane F. McAlevey - Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3

Does Basic Income Assume a Can Opener?

by David Calnitsky - Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3

Rereading Barthes and Nabokov

by Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace

by Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays