How to Break an Addiction
A Method-in-a-Manifesto for Quitting Capitalism āAnnie Spencer's wonderful book explores capitalismās devastating relentlessness through a brilliant analysis of how big pharma exploits organized abandonment and organized violence. Spoiler alert: itās not a metaphor.ā ā Ruth Wilson Gilmore What the opioid epidemic teaches us about the addiction at the root of our social lifeāand how we free ourselves from it. How To Break An Addiction paints an original and dynamic portrait of the nature of the opioid crisis while offering original commentary on what the crisis portends about the present historical conjuncture. Interrogating long- and short-run, macro and micro, national and global, structural and personal factors, it takes the ongoing US opioid crisis as a jumping off point to illustrate the profound conclusion: capitalism at its core is an addiction. In a blend of memoir, historical record, original research, and theoretical and cultural analysis, critical geographer and harm reduction activist Annie Spencer argues against a dominant āprogressiveā presumption of the need to reform (or āsaveā) capitalism, demonstrating instead the imperative to think, organize, and enact new ways of being and provisioning together on a living Earth.
A Method-in-a-Manifesto for Quitting Capitalism āAnnie Spencer's wonderful book explores capitalismās devastating relentlessness through a brilliant analysis of how big pharma exploits organized abandonment and organized violence. Spoiler alert: itās not a metaphor.ā ā Ruth Wilson Gilmore What the opioid epidemic teaches us about the addiction at the root of our social lifeāand how we free ourselves from it. How To Break An Addiction paints an original and dynamic portrait of the nature of the opioid crisis while offering original commentary on what the crisis portends about the present historical conjuncture. Interrogating long- and short-run, macro and micro, national and global, structural and personal factors, it takes the ongoing US opioid crisis as a jumping off point to illustrate the profound conclusion: capitalism at its core is an addiction. In a blend of memoir, historical record, original research, and theoretical and cultural analysis, critical geographer and harm reduction activist Annie Spencer argues against a dominant āprogressiveā presumption of the need to reform (or āsaveā) capitalism, demonstrating instead the imperative to think, organize, and enact new ways of being and provisioning together on a living Earth.
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A Method-in-a-Manifesto for Quitting Capitalism āAnnie Spencer's wonderful book explores capitalismās devastating relentlessness through a brilliant analysis of how big pharma exploits organized abandonment and organized violence. Spoiler alert: itās not a metaphor.ā ā Ruth Wilson Gilmore What the opioid epidemic teaches us about the addiction at the root of our social lifeāand how we free ourselves from it. How To Break An Addiction paints an original and dynamic portrait of the nature of the opioid crisis while offering original commentary on what the crisis portends about the present historical conjuncture. Interrogating long- and short-run, macro and micro, national and global, structural and personal factors, it takes the ongoing US opioid crisis as a jumping off point to illustrate the profound conclusion: capitalism at its core is an addiction. In a blend of memoir, historical record, original research, and theoretical and cultural analysis, critical geographer and harm reduction activist Annie Spencer argues against a dominant āprogressiveā presumption of the need to reform (or āsaveā) capitalism, demonstrating instead the imperative to think, organize, and enact new ways of being and provisioning together on a living Earth.