Showing posts with label Nick Srnicek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nick Srnicek. Show all posts

Saturday, May 20, 2017

Is there a new capitalism? [techo-capitalism]


Capitalism in the digital age. Same old capitalism or a new type of capitalism?

Understanding Society
Is there a new capitalism?
Daniel Little | Chancellor of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Professor of Philosophy at UM-Dearborn and Professor of Sociology at UM-Ann Arbor

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Scott Ferguson — universal basic income: a laissez-faire future

My claim, here, is that Srnicek and Williams’s Inventing the Future errs in the way it poses the problem of unemployment under neoliberalism and that this confused formulation generates a desire for UBI that is not only politically wrongheaded, but also contradicts the book’s professed goal of systemic transformation. The UBI may provide relief from some contemporary ills. But I suggest that it cannot bear the weight of the total transformation Srnicek and Williams are after.…
the unheard-of center
universal basic income: a laissez-faire future
Scott Ferguson