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Sam Popowich
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Joined March 26, 2025
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Maureen F. McHugh, "China Mountain Zhang"; Richard Whatmore, "What is Intellectual History?"
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But creative and cognitive workers, who are now finding themselves no-longer-protected from the dehumanizing processes of subsumption, need to recognize their immunity was only ever at the whim of capital, and realize that they are not naturally privileged over other workers, but are the same. There must be a slogan about workers everywhere uniting something something.
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Marx calls the expansion of capitalist wrecking logic into previously left-alone areas of human work "subsumption", and this process won't stop until the last bit of surplus value is wrung out of the production process. The only way to stop it, the only chance of being crafts-people again, is revolution.
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This is the main argument of my forthcoming book "Knowledge Capital", but fleshed out and with more argument, which I hope will be out by the end of the year.
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I wrote an elisp program to run through all my book chapters and compare them against my bibtex bibliography file, and show me a buffer with all my unused references. It's fun!
https://codeberg.org/redlibrarian/gists/src/branch/main/unused-citekeys.el
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#LB This is where historical materialism comes in. It isn't particular aspects of software engineering culture that is leading to deskilling, etc, it's the material relations of capitalism that produce that culture. The value of this way of understanding is it avoids the trap of thinking that you can fix the culture without abolishing capitalism itself.
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Who's "we", motherfucker?
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