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The Brave New World of Work

The human species cannot exist without work. Even if automation is driven to absurd limits, there will always be a rest of socially necessary labour. Labour is essentially the work of self-creation of the human species. And insofar this is true, there is no fixed or permanent understanding of labour and the social relationships which it is part of and which it creates. Therefore a reassessment of labour in the 21st century is urgently necessary.

We are interested in an inquiry inte the new organisation of labour not because we are obsessed with work. We also do not privilege in our analysis the wage-labour relationship. The question of labour of course implies forms of non-labour or what Marx called 'reproduction'; it implies idleness, affective labour, the labour of love, learning, experimentation and many other forms of labour which are not captured 100% by the notion of 'productive' labour in wage-labour relationships.

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Is Google Making Us Stupid? | Nicholas Carr

Sometime in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter-a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, to be precise. His vision was failing, and keeping his eyes focused on a page had become exhausting and painful, often bringing on crushing headaches. He had been forced to curtail his writing, and he feared that he would soon have to give it up. The typewriter rescued him, at least for a time. Once he had mastered touch-typing, he was able to write with his eyes closed, using only the tips of his fingers. Words could once again flow from his mind to the page.\n\nBut the machine had a subtler effect on his work. One of Nietzsche's friends, a composer, noticed a change in the style of his writing. His already terse prose had become even tighter, more telegraphic. "Perhaps you will through this instrument even take to a new idiom," the friend wrote in a letter, noting that, in his own work, his "'thoughts' in music and language often depend on the quality of pen and paper."\n\n"You are right," Nietzsche replied, "our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." Under the sway of the machine, writes the German media scholar Friedrich A. Kittler , Nietzsche's prose "changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style."

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How the H1N1 vaccine is made

For the shot vaccine, the virus is sterilized so that it won't make anyone sick. This is the magic part of the vaccine: it's got the pandemic virus antigens that make your body produce the antibodies to fight the virus but the virus is inactive so it won't make you ill.

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How To Hack Your Brain, Part 1: Sleep | Dustin Curtis

Ramblings from a user interface designer and amateur neuroscientist.

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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky

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kulturpunkt.hr: Jugoslavenska kultura? - Ne i da - Una Bauer - FriendFeed

kulturpunkt.hr: Jugoslavenska kultura? - Ne i da

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Jugoslavenska kultura? - Ne i da

D. J.: Na primjer, ali i u sarajevskoj kulturi koja je na tome naročito insistirala, prisjetimo se recimo Bregovićevih pokušaja da namjerno spoji Hej Slaveni s Lijepom našom i srpskim nacionalnim pjesmama, govorimo o njegovoj Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo. Govorimo li o tom stvaranju naročite jugoslavenske kulture kroz niz međusobnih utjecaja, moramo znati da oni nemaju podršku političke elite, nego obratno - na njih se gleda s velikom sumnjičavošću. Tako dolazi do paradoksalne situacije da politička elita ne podržava stvaranje jugoslavenske kulture, ali ona bez obzira na to nastaje. I to ne samo da nastaje jugoslavenska kultura, nego, uzmete li rezultate popisa stanovništva, uvjerit ćete se da se 1981. godine utrostručuje broj ljudi koji se deklariraju kao Jugoslaveni. To je potpuno paradoksalno i očiti je izraz otpora sistemu i njegovu djelovanju. No Wachtel upozorava da je sve to ipak bilo nedovoljno, i da je takav pothvat nemoguć mimo državnog aparata. Osim toga, kad gledamo ono što se događa nakon pada Jugoslavije mi vidimo da države vrlo aktivno djeluju na unificiranju i stvaranju konstitutivnih elemenata.

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Seth's Blog: Graduate school for unemployed college students

Fewer college grads have jobs than at any other time in recent memory—a report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers annual student survey said that 20 percent of 2009 college graduates who applied for a job actually have...

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The DPA Non-Paper

"The DPA Non-Paper"

by Arben Xhaferi

Chairman, The Democratic Party of Albanians in Macedonia

April 2001

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Challenges to Democracy in Multiethnic States

Challenges to Democracy in Multiethnic States\n\nby Arben Xhaferi\n\nEdited by Shirley Cloyes, Balkan Affairs Adviser, Albanian American Civic League

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