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About ann li-summers

retired professor, independent scholar

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NFTs are a lot like this banana, uh no they aren’t –

Guy who bought a $600k pet rock wants $25,000 in bananas “NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are a lot like this banana” — A crypto-person not clear on the concept, but considering he is a significant investor in Trump’s (World Liberty) cryptoponzi fund, … Continue reading

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Friday essay: could a reinterpreted Marxism have solutions to our unprecedented environmental crisis? Jeff Sparrow, The University of Melbourne In 2021, Kohei Saito’s Capital in the Anthropocene became a publishing sensation in Japan, eventually selling more than half a million … Continue reading

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Land art, labor art, capital art, and settler colonialism

Late capitalism’s production of cultural objects involves commodities making other commodities whether as art installation in an urban art gallery or as the remote desert site documented by photography, made now entrepreneurial for tourism as well as confounding the public policy for … Continue reading

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Theories of Surplus-Value is/is not [Volume IV of Capital]

(Heinrich 2021) A P P E N D I X 1 Marx’s Critical Economic Writings Of the three “theoretical” books of Capital that Marx planned to write, he was only able to finish the first one, dealing with the production … Continue reading

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Why machines don’t create value (in Cosmonaut magazine)

Originally posted on 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠:
My article, published in Cosmonaut magazine, explains why human labour, and human labour alone, is the cause of profit. https://cosmonautmag.com/2021/10/why-machines-dont-create-value/

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Towards a Liberal Critique of Left Neo-Liberalism Policy

Originally posted on Rortybomb:
Have you ever played that game where everyone tries to keep a balloon in the air as long as possible? Lots of people are discussing the lack of a political agenda in neoliberalism’s policies based on…

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Structural substitution and the logic of urban modernism

Originally posted on Flowers For Socrates:
By ann summers occupying a space for a time en.wikipedia.org/… ? Here are some examples of cultural substitution in the built environment that articulate multiple meanings and identify an axis or axes of more than geodetic importance.…

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Earth art… “Most people wouldn’t know (art) if it came up and bit them on the ass.” – Frank Zappa

Originally posted on Flowers For Socrates:
 “Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.” – Frank Zappa By ann summers This is why I always wanted my own bulldozer… (2015) Artist Michael Heizer,…

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