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Month: February 2020

  • contra Maslow

    I really should have guessed, but I never did know that Ol’ Man Maslow was a management consultant. Sam Haselby at Aeon: Why was corporate America drawn to [Maslow’s] hierarchy of needs? They liked it because it offered both a grand narrative and master explanation for human psychology in a changing society and a practical…

  • leveraging their putative goodness / the psychopathology of private infrastructures

    You may remember Joel Bakan from such influential Noughties non-fiction books/movies as The Corporation. Well, Bakan’s back, and his earlier thesis — that corporations, if considered as people, are basically psychopaths — is no less true than before. In fact, he claims it’s worse, because concepts like “corporate social responsibility” have merely encouraged them to…

  • 05FEB20 / accessions

    Nearing the end of the Palgrave binge.

  • strategies for lucidity

    I’m having the sort of day — and month, and year — in which confirming that I’m neither dreaming nor hallucinating has been more needful than ever before, in the best possible way. I seem to have joined the academic branch of #1000mphclub…

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