alien nation…

#alien #alienation #420 #those #fucking #humans #animatedgif

At present, the realization of universal #Labor is actually manifested as the de-realization of the worker, the objectification as the loss and enslavement of the object, and the possession as #alienation and externalization.
#CPC #maxism #socialist #capitalist #china #usa #max #communism #socialism

We must understand the essential connection between private #property greed, and the separation of #labor , #capital , and property, between exchange and #competition , between human #value and human depreciation, between #monopoly and competition, and between total #alienation and the #monetary system.
#CPC #maxism #socialist #capitalist #china #usa #max #communism #socialism

One of the reasons why people feel so much #alienation from #science is that no relevant connections are offered for their lives.

We need to think beyond #industry, #government, and #engineering when we think about #practical #applications of scientific #research. #Philosophy, #politics, and #art are relevant applications as well, and often more personal to people who feel alienated from science as we know it.

Nuclear physics feels more relevant when you're talking about Geiger counters being used to assess accident sites than when you're talking about them being used at bomb testing sites, even though the physics is essentially the same. Biochemistry feels more relevant when you're talking about water testing to monitor aquatic ecosystems for toxins than when you're talking about quality control for PepsiCo, even if you're talking about pH testing in both cases. Astronomy feels more relevant when you're talking about beautiful, profound JWST images that taught you something that amazed you about the universe we live in, than when it's a simple list of "fun facts" about galaxies. Chemistry feels more relevant when you get to try an experiment yourself in different ways, than when you're watching someone else do it formulaically.

Because one directly impacts people's lives for the better in meaningful ways, and the other causes harm, exists only for profit, or is totally abstract. One involves the #active #participation and #engagement of the learner with their own #curiosity, and the other is being lectured to by someone who thinks they know what's "really" important.

If you want to #interest more people in #learning and science, ask them #questions. Emphasize the #process of science, don't treat it as a set of established #facts. Engage with #issues of #representation and #ethics in your field, as well as #interdisciplinary work. And find ways to make your work felt positively in people's lives. Change what a #scientist is, and what science is for.

Can a doctor like @luckytran @chrischirp tell me whether I am sentenced to wearing a #mask indoors for the rest of my life, being a #longcovid sufferer, and never ever eating in an indoor #restaurant again? How *isolating* this is, causing #anxiety, #alienation, I cannot overstate, and it's like choosing between life #disability or early #alzheimer & thinning grey matter through lack of #socialisation. Is there *ever* a cure for #viraldiseases? Is there research on #ART for #covid?

Aujourd'hui j'ai écrit des petits adieux à des collègues dont le contrat se termine bientôt, sur des cartes collectives.

Un'e des chercheur'es "senior" avait écrit : "Merci d'avoir contribué à la performance du département."

Comment dire? ...
Alors oui, écrire des mots d'adieux c'est pas facile. Mais de là à ne pas pouvoir lâcher l'obsession de la compétitivé de son unité de #recherche...
#aliénation #néolibéralisme #université

Today's revision for my exam on Tuesday was #Durkheim on religion. I'd been tempted to go for #Weber on the #ProtestantWorkEthic but tbh after #Alienation by #Marx it was just too depressing. #sociology #university #AdultStudent

‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless - Simon Walo, 2023 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09500170231175771 #travail #entreprise #bullshit_job #job_à_la_con #aliénation #société #david_graeber #à_traduire #1st_revue #0_archivebox #2nd_frm #99th_revue

#Loneliness and #Alienation Can Be Solved with Unsolicited #Kindness
https://craigruvere.com/loneliness-and-alienation-can-be-solved-with-unsolicited-kindness/

#georgewoodcock #anarchism #decentralism #alienation

Justin Searls recently argued the 10x developer was going extinct. I critique his argument and then pivot to a discussion of Marx's theory of alienation, and how we programmers "who live to code" wrongly use our enthusiasm to power our productivity after hours, alienating ourselves from the limited creative powers we have at the end of the work day, all to someone else's profit.

codingthecommune.net/blog/2023-07-31-against-10x-development/

#marx #alienation #programming #philosophy

[en] UZH study: "Bullshit Jobs" after all?
After Prof Graeber's much discussed bullshit jobs theory (2013/2018) a researcher presents findings of a new sociological study. The paper apparently confirms, that many workers consider their jobs socially useless.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09500170231175771

#uselessjob #bullshitjob #sociology #uzh #universityzurich #alienation #graeber #simonwalo

...could be a big #paradigmshift. Filling our evenings with something else.

Maybe with actually doing stuff ourselves rather than watch fictional characters do stuff.

Maybe more meeting, knowing, appreciating our #neighbors and #community?

This could go either way - more #alienation or less, more factionalization or less, stronger communities or just more #fortressed communities - but it would absolutely be a different paradigm than now./2

that's the thing about #humans that claim they aren't #human, #mortality still exists even if you yourself think you aren't human, your dna tests say you are human, your #alienation you received by assholes on this #earth make you think you are some space fairy from far distant #galaxies, cool #story, but I can bet anything you and I have a lot more in common that you just refuse to #believe or #accept... you already know this but if you see this I just hope you understand that your #existential #reality #crisis must be overcome to move forward! I #love you as you are as a human, but love as in have my heart? you lied and you will never deserve that.

https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/722356231815217152/thats-the-thing-about-humans-that-claim-they?source=share

@StephanieCD @Purplenessa

#emprise #aliénation

Mais en prenant le large, tu vas te désintoxiquer.

The ultimate obscenity: https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-06-15/european-adventure-tourists-attempt-the-darien-gap-on-thrill-seeking-package-vacations.html #luxurytravel #alienation #mockery

Amazon, marketplace mondiale et pionnier du travail du clic. Deux facettes de la même aliénation? On en parle demain, mercredi 28 juin, avec @KassemSarrah, auteure du livre “#work and #alienation in the #platform #economy. #amazon and the power of organization”, lors de notre séminaire #DiPLab. À 15h30, salle 1.1., à l'@ISCPIF. Pour s'inscrire👉
https://diplab.eu/sarrah-kassem-guest-speaker-of-our-diplab-seminar-wed-28-june-2023-330-pm-cet/

new #blog post about everyone's favourite topic, #alienation - and #integrity, and #performance

ad-free, tracker-free, self-hosted blog link: https://thoughts.hnr.fyi/posts/2023/06/integrity-vs-performance/

(new! experiment!) substack link: https://honorash.substack.com/p/acting-from-integrity-vs-acting-as

there is an audio recording of the post on the #substack link

and you can subscribe to either via #RSS, though i recommend https://thoughts.hnr.fyi/index.xml

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Amazon, marketplace mondiale et pionnier du travail du clic. Deux facettes de la même aliénation? On en parle avec @KassemSarrah, auteure du livre “#work and #alienation in the #platform #economy. #amazon and the power of organization”, lors de notre séminaire #DiPLab, merc. 28 juin à 15h30 à l'@ISCPIF. Pour s'inscrire👉 https://diplab.eu/sarrah-kassem-guest-speaker-of-our-diplab-seminar-wed-28-june-2023-330-pm-cet/

#Alienation is manifested as the alienation and materialization of the way of thinking, as well as the regulation and shaping of people by instrumental rationality, technical rationality, production rationality and control rationality.
#socialist #anticapitalist #labor