Productivity culture moves managerial logic out of the workplace and into private life, turning calendars, habit trackers, and optimisation apps into tools of self-discipline that monitor us the way capital has always monitored labour.
Read More"Ethical" marketing and storytelling often mask structural exploitation, turning consumption into a substitute for justice. But we need to shift from individualistic narratives of empowerment toward building real infrastructures of power.
Read MoreUsing the strange case of an Australian Halloween as a central analogy, let's look at how global capitalism flattens time and place, severing our rituals from their history and ecological context to sell them back to us as hollow commodities.
Read MoreIs individual boundary-setting is the root cause of modern social isolation? Or perhaps we're placing unfair responsibility on isolated individuals while ignoring the structural changes needed for genuine community.
Read MoreNext-day delivery culture manufactures false urgency, and it costs both the workers who fulfil our impatience and our own capacity to distinguish need from desire.
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