Denizen One

Extract from Curtis White's The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work "It is no doubt that at some level we believe that these things that separate us from the Golden Rule have a payoff: they allow the accumulation of wealth while making the idea that we're responsible for others not so much wrong as irrelevant. And so it's all right if 60 percent of the nation's wealth is owned by the top 4 percent

Protestors in Thailand using the three fingered salute. Essay by Luke Howie and Perri Campbell An Introduction: to the Risks of...

One of the arguments put forward by rich people for taxing their gains at lower rates than your income is that their capital can move...

Extract from L. Howie and P. Campbell’s Essay Wear a Necklace of h(r)ope Side by Side with Me Editors note: a particular word has to be...

Extract from Alan France’s Essay Austerity and the ‘Workfare State’: The Remaking and Reconfiguration of Citizenship for the Young...

Extract from Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic If You're a Ward of the State, You Must Be Bipolar The medicating of foster...

From Paul Scott's 'The Raj Quartet' (part 1) “They were predictable people, predictable because they worked for the robot. What the robot...

Extract from David Graeber’s Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy “What I would like to argue is...

The American Psychiatric Association's (APA) disease model encourages an internal narration that robs one of a sense of self-agency ...

Sometimes you start a book, and right from the first page it starts dropping bombs. Extract from Dan Davies' The Unaccountability...

Extract from Rutger Bregman's Extract from Rutger Bregman's Humankind: A Hopeful History I thought this chapter might be of use to a...

Extract from Macroeconomics by William Mitchell, L. Randall Wray & Martin Watts An explanation of why all countries can't rely on fiscal...

They say raising the minimum wage is bad for the economy. But is it really so clear cut? Does it hurt the economy? So...why mainstream...

The yurodivy is a Holy Fool, one who acts intentionally foolish in the eyes of men . The term implies behaviour "which is caused neither...

Before we start, this post is a little different. It's part of a story. It's got a message and and emotional core. If you want to do it...

Extracts from Wilkinson & Pickett’s The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s...

David Graeber's refreshing (and often hilarious) look into bureaucracy and culture Extract from David Graeber's Utopia of Rules "The...

Extracts from Sanford F. Schram's The Return of Ordinary Capitalism "Yet for those who fail at becoming on their own financially savvy...

Extract from Martin Luthor King Jr's Shattered Dreams “What, then, is the answer? The answer lies in our willing acceptance of unwanted...

Extract from Guy Standing's The Precariat: A New Dangerous Class "Varieties of precariat However one defines it, the precariat is far...