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(DIR) Post #AvQ0VfRIKmNrryyLVg by estelle@techhub.social
2023-06-16T18:07:04Z
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"My starting point was an article that appeared in an American weekly in 1954. It explained that the development of US production capacity required consumption to grow by at least 50% over the next eight years, but that people were unable to define what their additional 50% of #consumption would be made of. It was up to the #advertising and #marketing experts to arouse new needs, desires and fantasies in consumers, to load even the most trivial goods with symbols that would increase demand for them. #Capitalism needed people to have greater needs."⸺André #Gorz in "Ecologica" #consumerism #quotes #quote ⸺in #French: https://infosec.exchange/@estelle/110555204348886313
(DIR) Post #AvQ0VghHeolflrSd4S by estelle@techhub.social
2024-04-03T20:26:47Z
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"The praise of the virtues and ethics of work in a context of growing unemployment and job insecurity is part of a strategy of domination: workers must be encouraged to compete for jobs that are too scarce, to accept them under any conditions, to consider them intrinsically desirable, and to prevent workers and the unemployed from uniting to demand a different sharing of work and socially produced wealth".André Gorz in "Ecologica"#employment #labor #capitalism #Gorz #consumerism #quotes #quote #economy #work
(DIR) Post #AvQ0Vi8cIgE4EvFyJU by estelle@techhub.social
2024-08-14T20:45:37Z
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"Placing the individual and his or her ability to free him or herself from a social world perceived as shameful is not particularly subversive; it is the most widespread mode of explanation today. Far from emancipation thinking with a more markedly collective character, which envisions classes in struggle against structural dominations, this ecology is a tool for social acceptance which is all the more effective in that it presents itself as an attainable and individually gratifying #alternative".Aude Vidal in "Egologie : Ecologie, individualisme et course au bonheur" (Egology: ecology, individualism and the race for happiness) @anthropocene #believe #faith #hope #ecology #sobriety #institutionsDeceive #Vidal #ecologism #politicalEcology #degrowth #consumerism #quotes #quote #economy #shopping #capitalism #climateChange #beliefs #hegemony
(DIR) Post #AvQ0VjeYfPN0wHCzjs by estelle@techhub.social
2024-08-14T20:52:24Z
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"There is a conflation of capitalism with reality, that this is the only way things operate. There are other ways of organising our relationships with nature and each other."Patrick Bresnihan in The Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2024/08/08/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-but-curtailing-it-is-the-discussion-nobody-wants-to-have/ @anthropocene 🧶#media #press #believe #faith #hope #ecology #institutionsDeceive #ecologism #politicalEcology #degrowth #growth #consumerism #quotes #quote #economy #shopping #capitalism #climateChange #conflation #reality #globalHeating #environment #pollution
(DIR) Post #AvQ0Vr0RKS25kAV4Jk by estelle@techhub.social
2024-11-21T20:50:54Z
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[A long thread ball 🧶]#Work is a matter of power and domination.#Work should be a concern of political theory.Here is the introduction from Kathi Weeks' book 'The problem with work: feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries': https://libcom.org/article/problem-work-kathi-weeks @politicalscience#fetishism #manufacturingConsent #believe #beliefs #faith #hope #institutionsDeceive #politicalTheory #growth #consumerism #economy #shopping #capitalism #workCulture #jobs #KathiWeeks #imagination #feminism #Marxism #antiwork #politics #postwork #book #buying #consuming #consumption #workEthics #Foucault #bioPower #bioPolitics #MaxWeber #longRead