Author Archives: ann li-summers

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About ann li-summers

retired professor, independent scholar

Tackling an art & economics problem using an AI

Posted on 30/04/2026 by ann li-summers

Leo AI in the Brave browser You: did leonardo da vinci understand that increasing the amount of people purchasing art materials brought the price of artist materials down Leo AI: No, there is no historical evidence that Leonardo da Vinci … Continue reading →

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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: neoliberalism, antitrust, and those pesky rentiers

Posted on 21/04/2026 by ann li-summers
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GOPhascism dismantling the US Forest Service in the biggest smash-and-grab to date

Posted on 14/04/2026 by ann li-summers
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michael roberts

Posted on 10/02/2025 by ann li-summers
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NFTs are a lot like this banana, uh no they aren’t –

Posted on 01/12/2024 by ann li-summers

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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LTRPF

Posted on 30/01/2024 by ann li-summers
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reprint

Posted on 30/05/2023 by ann li-summers

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

Posted on 21/10/2022 by ann li-summers

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]

Posted on 28/07/2022 by ann li-summers

(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)

Posted on 18/10/2021 by ann li-summers

Originally posted on 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗔𝗚𝗘 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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