10/1 Brief Disaster Capitalism
After reading “Blank is Beautiful”, I still cannot determine what to re-write on this “clean slate” will be the best for the …
10/1 Brief
Naomi Klein defines “disaster capitalism” as “orchestrated raids on the public sphere” designed by corporations to exploit disasters such as hurricanes, tsunamis, …
9/26 Brief
Mark Slouka gives praise to the qualities of being idle. He values the acts of thinking, taking time to wander, and …
Brief for 09/26
Idleness is a philosophy of life. This article states that as a continuously developing society, the tendency to produce and the desire …
Brief for 9/26/2018 (Culture of Production)
Mark Slouka wrote an essay capturing an unusual perspective of the virtues of idleness and how it relates to the norms in …
Neoliberalism
Its interesting to see everything taken from an economic perspective because there are always two ways to view a particular subject, mathematically …
9/24 Brief (Neoliberalism)
Richard Swedberg explains how markets are at work in majority of contemporary societies. However, he points out that “markets have a ideological …
Brief for 9/24 (Neoliberalism, Power Culture and Virtue)
Historically speaking, the economic factors are the core determinants of how society is structured. Swedberg gives the example of agoras, and explains …
Briefs on Hegemony and Power
According to Gramsci, hegemony is “either this (a complex interlocking of political, social and cultural forces) or the active social and cultural …
Brief for 9/19
Power and Hegemony Brief In the “Hegemony” section of Marxism and Literature by Raymond Williams, the author talks about hegemony as a …