Every successful sales pitch at Land Forces, every business card exchanging hands at the official networking events, means more weapons in the hands of those who can always justify their use.
Loneliness has become a feature of modernity, a hallmark of late capitalism, woven into the technologies and built environments that form the architecture of our lives.
An important step towards attacking neoliberalism is to challenge a pervasive fiction regarding our country’s welfare system: the idea that access is a privilege, rather than a fundamental human right.
The profit-driven logic of today’s media landscape - of which the Nine-Fairfax merger is only the latest symptom - is largely incapable of producing truly media products that represent people’s voices and speak to their experiences.
We can envision and create systems that do not isolate, abandon, and imprison people. We can abolish a mindset, framed by the prison-industrial-complex mode of thinking, that economic, social, and political problems are solved through professionalised "services"