- Work is not the problem.
Selling your labour under capitalism is one type of work, but it flavours how we think about and experience all other types of work. When I spend a day doing physical work that I can see and understand — planting, repairing, cooking, building, sharing — I am tired, but not estranged. The effort makes sense.… Read more: Work is not the problem. - Post-Capitalism as a Practice
When I talk about anti-capitalism, or my anti-capitalist practice, I think it’s important to ground the term. I am not hopeful that we will see an exit from the capitalist system. When I talk about designing for what’s next, I don’t mean that we will move from capitalism into something inherently anti-capitalist. I find that… Read more: Post-Capitalism as a Practice - Design for Decay
The phrase “design for decay” first appeared in a substack conversation offered by Anarcasper in response to my unending questions about building new structures inside of the capitalist system. The phrase stuck with me because it named something I had been circling without articulating. Not collapse. Not apocalypse. But erosion. A recognition that whatever comes… Read more: Design for Decay - Feeding the Spectacle
What does it currently mean to make content for the internet? I’ve been a content creator for over two decades before it was labeled. Since a time before LiveJournal and MySpace, before social media existed in any context, I’ve been blogging and “camgirl”ing since the mid 1990s. Before we wrote for the algorithm, we wrote… Read more: Feeding the Spectacle