On what is next for 'PMC theory'
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The social media avatar known as Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost joins us to unpick the conjuncture: as the Trump administration makes cuts and seeks to do away with progressives in bureaucracies, where does that leave the left-wing critique of the PMC?
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What would Lasch's ghost be telling us now?
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Is the PMC a class? Is it distinct people? Or is it more like procedures, and ways of thinking?
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Is woke over? Will the MANGOs (media, academia, NGOs) carry on?
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Can the PMC still advance oppositional politics or it hopeless compromised?
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What will be the effect on AI doing away with professional class jobs?
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Is vice-signalling replacing virtue-signalling?
Links:
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Death of a Yuppie Dream, Barbara Ehrenreich, RosaLux (pdf)
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It’s Our Fault, Dustin Guastella, Damage
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Trump’s purge of the professionals, Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd
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This obsession with a ‘new elite’ hides the real roots of power, Kenan Malik, The Guardian
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The Techno-Populist Convergence, Alex Hochuli, Compact