{"id":18443,"date":"2016-03-02T21:23:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T02:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18443"},"modified":"2016-03-02T21:23:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T02:23:13","slug":"does-goldman-sachs-care-if-you-raise-chickens-some-thoughts-on-accelerationism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18443","title":{"rendered":"Does Goldman Sachs care if you raise chickens? Some thoughts on accelerationism"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/smallfarmfuture.org.uk\/?p=963\" target=\"_blank\">Does Goldman Sachs care if you raise chickens? Some thoughts on accelerationism<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">\u201cGoldman Sachs doesn\u2019t care if you raise chickens\u201d according to political scientist Jodi Dean, quoted by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams (henceforth S&amp;W) in their recent book,\u00a0<em>Inventing the Future<\/em>1. And if that title doesn\u2019t sufficiently telegraph S&amp;W\u2019s line of argument, perhaps their subtitle \u2018Postcapitalism and a world without work\u2019 will help, as will the insistent demands imperiously inscribed on the book\u2019s cover: \u201cDemand full automation \u2013 Demand universal basic income \u2013 Demand the future\u201d.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In other words, it\u2019s the kind of book that probably ought to be complete anathema to me. And in some ways it is. But actually I find myself in agreement with a good deal of what S&amp;W have to say. It\u2019s a serious, grownup book about the challenges now facing progressive politics \u2013 the kind of book that Leigh Phillips should have tried to write instead of penning fatuous putdowns to the green movement2. By contrast, S&amp;W\u2019s diagnosis for the mess we\u2019re in seems to me spot on in many ways. But I think they lose their way when they try to provide solutions. It\u2019s plain that they don\u2019t know much about farming or about the history of agrarian populism. I\u2019d like to think that if they corrected this \u2013 perhaps through a long chat with a farmer over a hard day\u2019s shared work, like the one I recently had processing and salting down my recently-slaughtered pig (not sure what Goldman Sachs\u2019 line is on suids) \u2013 we might find a surprising amount of overlap in our thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The points at issue are important, I think, if we\u2019re to create the kind of moral\/ethical polities that Steve Gwynne raised in the comments on my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/smallfarmfuture.org.uk\/?p=954\">recent post about commons<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 polities of the kind I think are necessary to achieve just and sustainable societies. So let me whizz through a few aspects of S&amp;W\u2019s analysis in order to lay some foundations for that project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Goldman Sachs care if you raise chickens? Some thoughts on accelerationism \u201cGoldman Sachs doesn\u2019t care if you raise chickens\u201d according to political scientist Jodi Dean, quoted by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams (henceforth S&amp;W) in their recent book,\u00a0Inventing the Future1. And if that title doesn\u2019t sufficiently telegraph S&amp;W\u2019s line of argument, perhaps their subtitle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20,299,376,6414,9738],"class_list":["post-18443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-agriculture","tag-farming","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-post-capitalism","tag-small-farm-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18444,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443\/revisions\/18444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}