The Pressure Cooker

If you don’t have the ability to bleed off excess pressure – if you don’t have that safety valve, if the exhaust can’t escape from the gas engine, whatever – then what you have is a very different machine: a bomb.

Analysis, Time of Monsters, Written by: CameronCameron SummersMay 22, 2024David Graeber, Rebecca Solnit, Naomi Klein, Debt: The First 5000 Years, The Utopia of Rules, A Paradise Built in Hell, The Shock Doctrine, Herbert Marcuse, Mario Savio, Alexis de Tocqueville Comment

The Social Zamboni

I call this “the social zamboni.” It is something that smooths out the rough edges and fields of intensity. I do not think that this particular social formation is one that was designed – such thinking would be conspiracism – but one that has gradually emerged to make the environment in which it occurs more stable.

Analysis, Political, Written by: CameronCameron SummersJuly 21, 2021Mark Fisher, David Graeber, Rebecca Solnit, Naomi Klein, Weird Towns, The Utopia of Rules, Bullshit Jobs, A Paradise Built in Hell, The Shock Doctrine, Capitalist Realism, CapitaliformingComment

Cameron's Book Reviews, Summer 2021

So, I blew past the goal I set on Goodreads. I tend to set it very low, because I want to take my time with things, and a lot of my day job involves reading things so I can explain them to people who were supposed to have read them and didn’t. However, due to the ongoing everything, I’ve been mainlining audiobooks when Edgar’s out of the house and I’ve made it extremely fa