Mindfulness Meets the Money

Goldberg-Yoga-and-Business-culture1-690Buddhist meditation is rooted in the principle of cultivating non-attachment. But in recent years corporate culture has been adapting and assimilating the principles of mindfulness to use as mental tools to increase productivity. Michelle Goldberg explores the meeting of American capitalism and Eastern spirituality.

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The Geometry of Progress

Metropole-8-CustomLewis Bush uses photography to explore how capitalism applies the principle of ‘Stacking’ across contexts, from supermarket shelving to wealth-focused housing and the new architecture boom in the City of London.
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We Are All Very Anxious

anxious-vogue1-604x400The intriguingly-titled Institute for Precarious Consciousness offers a succinct resumé of the evolution of Capitalism’s ‘dominant affects’ and the corresponding changing responses by resistance movements. The Institute’s proposed tactical 1-2-3 for responding to the current affect of all-pervading anxiety seems helpful… Read more >>

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[Dispatch posted by the Bureau for Agent Penfold in the field.]

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Collaborative Journalism Cracking the Great Corporate Tax Dodge

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It took months for a group of journalists and experts to go through nearly 28,000 pages of secret Luxembourg tax deals that were revealed in early 2014. The head-crackingly complicated documents revealed crucial information about how accounting firms like PriceWaterhouseCoopers had helped hundreds of multinational corporations obtain secret deals from Luxembourg that allowed many of them to drastically cut their tax bills. The investigation involved up to 80 journalists from different countries and organisations, all working together by using an ICIJ secure online networking platform where reporters could search, download files and share information. Inspiring and courageous example of collaboration in service of truth and integrity… Read the full story here >>

Image via The Guardian : see here for more of these “rough guides to Babylon”…

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“We Will Need Writers Who Can Remember Freedom…”

Deeply inspiring and radical speech by an American elder standing up for real and free art in the face of the all-consuming profit motive.

Full text here, courtesy of Parker Higgins aka @xor
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