The current threats to jobs and livelihoods posed by AI, whether real or imagined (my bet is on real), expose deeper issues with our relationship to work and the role it plays in our lives. When positioned within the long history of alienation, AI-saturated workplaces are not a disruption,
By limiting the ways we move about our world, we also limit our ability to imagine alternatives. But by remembering how to move differently, we can begin to remember that we can live differently too.
Why maintain a "marketplace" of ideas when you could have a playground? Or perhaps a community garden?
Next time: How do non-Catholic justices reason about abortion, and can we point to a moment where that reasoning was usurped?
When different voices and experiences are included in scientific research, a broadening occurs - we ask new questions and contextualize old facts. Is this "softening" or progress?
Dedicated to Tyler Leeds, a kind friend, colleague, and Michael Burawoy's last student.
If corporations are people, what type of people are they?
Shooting someone in the back is violence. But what about denying someone healthcare? In a world where the actions of corporations harm individuals, what counts as "violence" becomes unclear.
...according to US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (and Rehnquist before him).
Thinking about time as space is one of the most basic and pervasive metaphors out there. As we enter 2025, it is worth thinking about our movements through and in the new year.