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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

Mirowski & Neoliberal thought collective & faith

Let’s move the conversation beyond power. This is what Foucault was doing in his final seminars (see particularly 13/13 The Courage of Truth, 1983-84). As described by economic historian Philip Mirowski, the neoliberal thought collective, that is the Mont Pèlerin Society, is not about securing or maintaining élites

I look through my email as if I will find there a message that is meant for me

lessons from other cultures not a political record people of no consequence losing their spiritual home pompous, alienating architecture of your life | otherwise one-dimensional kiss-offs, songs of regret, an internal record, a universalised diary, an exorcism, fire in no way diminishing myriad inequalities phobias | hatreds your order will arrive killing

neoliberal thought collective is “primarily held together by philosophical commitments”

destroyed wisdom

dear diary, today I like this phrase “romantic materialism.” today I ordered Elizabeth Grosz’s The Incorporeal and John M. Harrison’s Viriconium. …today I am nervous. today I am suspended between two ideas: one is, against immaterial labour and semiocapitalism, the idea of the place of care, care of

… on the beach

He goes to find a sun lounger. “Can I have one that’s more pretentious?” Tomas asks an attendant. “Of course, Sir, but only on condition that you make yourself ridiculous.” — James Palumbo, Tomas, Quartet Books, London, 2009.

Empty Life – Vandana Shiva on the plunder blunder

It seems that the Western powers are still driven by the colonizing impulse to discover, conquer, own, and possess everything, every society, every culture. The colonies have now been extended to the interior spaces, the “genetic codes” of life-forms from microbes and plants to animals, including humans. John Moore, a

mellow waves