Wearing Clothes & Making Stuff
The future of the apparel and allied industries
Theme archive
Musings on Capitalism and Growth
Capitalism, extraction, growth, productivity, profit, and the cultural commitments behind economic expansion.
Believing the Right Villain
Propaganda in a Comforting Voice
Towards a Theocracy of Capital
When Wealth Becomes a Weapon
Prisons Of Our Own Invention
Industrial Economism and the New Servitude
The Anxiety Economy
Who Profits When You Can't Put The Phone Down
Architecture of Enmity
A coach in a gymnasium in Lima tells a squad of eleven-year-old girls, minutes before a regional match, that the team on the other side of the net are their enemies for the next ninety minutes.
Noisy Activists
The Pilbara runs on diesel the rest of Australia pays for. The mining lobby would rather you didn't say so.
The Pause That Passes For Peace
Why Military Force is Never Sufficient
Using Capital Wisely
The changing nature of capital and its use
Industrial Economism – The Pathology & Its Cure
A Death Wish with a Business Plan
The Cost of an Unfiltered Woman
A friend of mine posted something on LinkedIn this morning that I could not put down.
Food: The Operating System Of A Dying World
I have spent much of my life staring at the dashboard of a civilisation that thinks it’s steering, while in reality its strapped to the front of a runaway helter-skelter, applauding its own acceleration.
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