Monthly Archives: March 2015

From Matthew Wisnioski’s Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America: [James D. Horgan] argued that technology and culture shaped each other reciprocally and that human values were an essential consideration in any technical problem. Selecting goals after reflective interrogation … Continue reading →

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
[Text of a short talk presented at Socialism and Deindustrialisation event put on by Spring. See Michael Roberts’ write-up of his talk here.] “In fact, the realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is…

Shock and austerity. Stock market instability. Stagnant wages and the decline of purchasing power. War. Climate change. Despite these multiplying crises, capitalism retains an essential tool that allows it to perpetuate itself on a global level despite its internal contradictions: … Continue reading →

Here’s a text I wrote over at Synthetic Zero on McKenzie Wark’s turn to maverick Marxist Alexander Bogdanov. Part 1 of 2!

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
Gilles Retskin and I at the mid-term student review of their work. For anyone who is interested, here is the text of my talk before the College of Architecture at Texas A&M (btexasa&marchitecture).  In light…