Yes and this would be an inadequate analysis, simplistic to the point of redundancy. If you're not talking healthcare and it's deliberate sabotage by ...
Worth noting that the failure of the Italian state has largely owed itself to the EU bureaucracy, which, thanks to a decade of imposed neoliberal aust...
CV has been ... convenient for a number of state powers. Malaysia, which has deployed the military to the streets, had CV hit just after what was effe...
No actually the modelling is pretty clear. In fact you don't even need modeling, just follow the trend lines with your index finger. Love all these 'i...
There are no hands being delt here, only political decisions to be made over actively preventing entirely preventable deaths or actively encouraging e...
Via Jodi Dean, whose running commentary on CV is one of the few things worth paying attention to among the media scrum: "The sheer magnitude of the po...
I've barely mentioned Trump at all so I don't know why you think that qualification matters in the slightest. I agree that the American response has b...
You can make up whatever fantasy thought experiments you like. I'm talking about what's happening now, and what will actually happen. The virus is con...
Your ideology is dumb. Humankind doesn't exist independently of the ecologies that sustain it. The destruction of that ecology is responsible for the ...
No, there isn't. Until the virus is under complete control, there is no question. It's that simple. Anything else is dissimulation and the effective m...
Yep. It's the fitting of a toy model of the economy onto the reality of social relations; anyone that doesn't fit the model can die; is not even ackno...
This is not a response to what I wrote. It's hard to see, in fact, what it is at all. Did I argue that we shouldn't 'take into consideration the econo...
Yes and no. Even the framing of this question is open - or ought to be open - to radical revision: what is traditionally called 'the economy' is large...
Yeah, a few places picked up on linking the trolley problem to the decisions having to be made by doctors in Italy. It got me thinking - and made expl...
No one is sleeping by the switch. The switch has been deliberately ignored in the name of profit. You're a common man, which probably means it's OK if...
Jodi Dean on the temporal aspects of the latest crisis of capitalism brought about by CV: "We already know that the time of capital, of the self-valor...
Not me whose fantasizing instead of taking into account what those in power are actually contemplating. The only appeal to emotion is yours, governmen...
Says someone who is happy to let half a million people perish. Those lengths are real and being contemplated by those in power, with whom you sympathy...
So suspend rent and provide income relief. Hell, establish a UBI ASAP. Better yet, communalize the means of production everywhere, put businesses into...
Oh he's undoubtably doing that - but it's not just that. His analysis of 2008 are consistent with what he wrote in his books on the topic long before ...
As far as numbers go, it seems like the those who'd ape the president's just-thinking-aloud about the keeping the US 'open for business' are, in pract...
As someone put it elsewhere: anyone who thinks there is a giant government conspiracy ought to observe just how much they are writhing to end the shut...
This is about corporate panic over bottom lines, not authoritarian government, and only idiots are consistently suckered into thinking the latter is w...
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