Stephen J Kimber's perspectives on life, the universe and pretty much everything else
CONSUMPTION, much of it unnecessary – is essential to modern capitalism. And Homo economicus – whose concerns are only about the rational accumulation of wealth (which he or she consumes) – is the perfect CONSUMER, our Technofeudalists’ “Cloud serf”.
If I am to take Nick Hanauer’s[1] advice and kill off homo economicus then what I fear I’ll be left with is – all that someone of a liberal-humanist bent can ask, I suppose – homo impotenticus. A person unpurposed: because I am not alone, because I am not reified individual, because I am part … Continue reading On the alleged death of homo economicus
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