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Quoted: Best Plant Ever.

death as value-production

a "dead peasant" is one who has had a life insurance policy taken out for them by a corporation, the corporation being the beneficiary of this policy. they are the deceased that continue to make profit. kill me

a douche bag apologist for slavery

Sociology for the South, or, the Failure of Free Society (1854) was George Fitzhugh's most powerful attack on the philosophical foundations of free society. In it, he took on not only Adam Smith, the foundational thinker of capitalism, but also John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, and the entire liberal tradition. He argued that free labor and free markets enriched the strong while crushing the weak. What society needed, he wrote, was slavery, not just for blacks, but for whites as well. "Slavery," he wrote, "is a form, and the very best form, of socialism."

Fitzhugh believed that slavery reduced the pressure on the poor and lower class, in other words, advocating slavery for poor whites as well as blacks

WTF! Seriously, WHAT...THE...FUCK....

looks like some interesting interviews are gathered here. Interviews of, among others, Latour, Lorraine Daston, Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer (Leviathan and the Air Pump), Ulrich Beck, and Ian Hacking.

new post on the Blog o Smiles

remember that case before the supreme court to decide whether the use of money by corporations can count as free speech? the answer as of today is yes. Awesome.

Quoted: Overruling two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

self-dot

Quoted: Amazon.com: The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry (9780465079353): Paul Starr: Books

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Quoted: Ah, yes. The time is at hand. No more shall the countless humiliations you have heaped upon me go unanswered. At last, the moment of reckoning. A...

this tv show sounds so insidious

here is CBS's description

UNDERCOVER BOSS is a new reality series that follows high level corporate executives as they slip anonymously into the lowest level jobs within their companies. Once undercover, they’ll get their hands dirty with the rank and file, find out what their employees REALLY think of them and discover how smoothly their companies are REALLY run. In the process, these senior executives learn about themselves, the perception of their company and the spirit of their work force.