Our next meeting will be Sunday, August 23rd at 2pm. I’d like to invite you to hang around after the meeting for a beer and some purely social time, if you can.



The location for this month’s meeting is Per’s house. Please see the listserv email for the address. If you are not already on the list, join us to receive all the info about the next meeting.

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“ON THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF GIANT PUPPETS: broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture” (ESSAY) by David Graeber



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And a couple readings on the present and future of work:

“The automation myth: Robots aren’t taking your jobs— and that’s the problem” (VOX) by Matthew Yglesias

“The Amazonization of Everything: Amazon’s success lies in worker exploitation and intrusions into consumers’ private lives.” (JACOBIN) by David Golumbia



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For those who would like a little more to read and talk about, please check out this disturbing, deeply affective piece by Margaret Atwood —

“It’s Not Climate Change, It’s Everything Change”