Prisons Of Our Own Invention
Industrial Economism and the New Servitude
Theme archive
Musings on Markets and Finance
Markets, finance, money, debt, risk, speculation, and the institutions that move capital.
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 War That Cannot End
On the Productive Machinery of Permanent Conflict
The Cost of an Unfiltered Woman
A friend of mine posted something on LinkedIn this morning that I could not put down.
What The Text Does Not Say
In defence of authenticity in authorship
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.
Anxiety In The Western Mind
Distrust and the Machinery of an Exhausted Civilisation
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