The passage below is specifically taken from The Foucault Reader, pp. 130-138. Any mistakes, grammatical errors, or other faults are mine.It this entire, rather undifferentiated mass at which the edict of 1657 is aimed: a population without resources, without social moorings, a class of rejected or rendered mobile by new economic developments. Less than two…
Note: A friend of mine was willing to donate some of her time and energy into channeling her great writing prowess for my site! I really appreciate this article and Winter taking the time to share her personal experiences with us. If you can imagine employment as a gigantic revolving door the size of a…
(Nick’s Notes: Edmund was kind enough to let me republish this, please check out his original here) Revolutionary Luxury, Bureaucratic Administration Any politics that seeks an encompassing notion of liberation and freedom must, first and foremost, be oriented towards the future, and must pursue this horizon through goal-oriented actions. This effectively sets up a feedback…
Extra special note regarding this piece: You can find this article in my book (here) and I am specifically taking this text from Grant’s recent re-posting of it on his own blog, Appalachian Son. Off the southern slopes of Bird Mountain in Tennessee the headwaters of Flat Fork emerge. The waters trickle into one another…
Nick’s Notes: This is one of the few pieces that didn’t make the final cut for my Abolish Work collection. Kenyon was kind enough to let me publish it here instead. Passive Resistance In Work Abolition Malcolm X once said, “You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.” Here, he…
Nick’s Notes: Kevin gave me full permission to repost this a while ago but I totally forgot. Thanks, Kevin! Robert Balthazar. The Discrete Charm of Economic Growth. Part I: The Bilinguals; Part II: The Making of an Overriding Collective Preference (2016). At the outset Balthazar briefly summarizes his own intellectual journey as an economist, looking…
Nick’s Notes: This post was originally published on the Center for a Stateless Society. Michael Gibson tries to demonstrate the infeasibility of a universal basic income by showing that people actually like to work, as evidenced by the increase of hours relative to increased prosperity witnessed during the 20th and 21st centuries. According to him,…
Nick’s Notes: This post was originally posted on Copblock.org under a Creative Commons License. I’ve spaced out Hotchkin’s essay and moved some of the photos around but done nothing else in the editing process. When once they stalked deer, or crouched shivering in the mud for the flight of ducks to alight, or risked their…
Nick’s Notes: I have republished this under a Creative Commons License that Abe himself used and also reached out to Abe to see if he was explicitly okay with republishing. As of the time of this being published he has not gotten back to me but if he tells me anything differently I will remove…
Original can be found here and credit to my friend Outcide Catt for finding this! Before we can answer this question, we must ask: what is play? Play is the antithesis of work. Work is the art of an exploitative science. It tugs at the reigns of capital, conducting its movements, speed and flow, carrying…