92 entries from "Campinas"

[Multiple examples and analogies, as opposed to just one, help illuminate variability in the application of a concept.]

[Negative transfer refers to memorizing something in the wrong context; almost like functional fixedness. Positive transfer refers to the successful application of a concept to a new context.]

[People can misinterpret short-term failure as an indicator that they don't belong. Help them re-frame it as simply setbacks and nothing more, provide models of others who felt similarly in their situation.]

[Mitigate stereotype threat by emphasizing how people have multiple identities and focusing on the facets that are in-group.]

[Feeling a social connection or group belonging increases persistence on challenging tasks.]

[Establishing property and separating people from the land as a means of doing or self-sustainability leaves them with no choice but to freely choose to be exploited.]

[Property restricts the flight of those without it while not restricting flight for those who own it.]

[The system of property, like a maze with no exit, eventually funnels people back into the labour market to work as wage slaves.]

[The more capital is repelled by people, the more violently it tries to enclose them by extending the notion of property (genes, software, land) and refashioning people in its own image.]

[The most important outcome of struggle is often not the fulfillment of immediate demands but the creation of a community united in its opposition to oppressive forms, a collective doing.]

[Property is a noun used to describe and conceal an active separating process. To think of it as a noun is to accept the terms of domination.]

[Capital is the movement of denying movement.]

[Revolution is conceivable only if it is imagined as ordinary, that everyone can be a revolutionary.]

[There can be no recipes for revolutionary organization because it is anti-recipe.]

[Politics of events rather than politics of organization.]

[Representative democracy ensures that the masses want what the bourgeoisie thinks they should want. The masses are included in a form of articulation that excludes them. It is not a victory against capitalist rule, it is an extension of capital's domination.]

[at the very least ensure that we die of our own poison as opposed to that of others.]

[The representatives do not betray us: we betray ourselves when we elect them to speak on behalf of us.]

[Constantly expanding credit implies a weakening of market discipline. Postponing a crisis prolongs the life of inefficient capital and insubordinate workers.]

[Moving off the gold standard undermined the stability of currency. As capital tends towards crisis, credit is expanded to ward off the destruction of fictitious capital, the banks, and the financial system.]

[Money has expanded much faster than the value it represents.]

[Credit and debt is so fundamental to the financial structure of capitalism that threat or occurrence of default by a major debtor can wreak havoc on the markets. There was an urgency in putting together a package to support the peso in 1994 when it became clear that the Mexican government could default.]

[Capital is an inherently mobile form of domination: if it doesn't like the workers it subordinates, it can eject them from the premises, dissolve itself into money, and find more subordinate, more 'flexible' workers.]

[Credit, like the extending of a leash, gives both the dog and master the illusion of freedom.]

[We can understand capitalist domination's vulnerability by understanding that capital is not external to labour.]

[We are the only contradictions to capitalism; history is about the struggle to classify and against being classified, not laws of capitalist development. There are no gods such as money, capital, production forces, or history: we are the only creators, we are the only saviours, we are the guilty.]

[In any power dynamic, the relation between dominator and dominated is mutual, not one-way: the exploiters always depend on the exploited.]

[The feudalist relations between serfs and lords bound them to each other geographically and thus socially. Neither was free to choose another to dominate or be dominated by. The transition to capitalism gave both the freedom to do so.]

[The serfs were not free to stop working for someone else because they didn't control the means pf production. The lords were not free from exploitation because the expansion of their wealth depended on subordination of labour. Both flights to freedom arrive at a new form of dependence.]

[The interdependence between capital and labour is not symmetrical: capital dissolves without labour whereas labour without capital transformation into creativity and humanity.]

[Capitalism is a society of non-correspondence, things don't fit together functionally, the law of value is inseparable from

[A positive autonomous subject is akin to a prisoner in a cell who believes they are already free: it's an attractive fiction that leads easily to other fictions.]

[Neither ants nor machines revolt. Any theory of revolution must recognize our humanity regardless of where we are on the spectrum between natural and cybernetic.]

[Anti-power is ubiquitous and exists in our everyday experiences of friendship, love, community comradeship, cooperation – and all of the contradictions and issues that come with them.]

[Domination implies not absence of resistance but its invisibility. Oppression implies invisibility of the oppressed.]

[The only way to construct relations of dignity is through negation of what denies dignity.]

[If social relations are self-determining and not fetishized, they cannot conform to laws and are inherently void of certainty.]

[If capitalism can be understood completely through the laws of its own motion, it means that society is fetishized.]

[Certainty is the negation of revolutionary change, therefore our struggle is therefore against certainty.]

[Classes cannot be separated from their constitution: to say that they exist implies the framework which necessitates them.]

[We don't struggle as the working class: we struggle against being classified.]

[We can only be emancipated to the extent that we are not what we are classified, identified as.]

[During production, the worker produces an object as well as the value that perpetuates the command over his labour.]

[We don't need to be explicit in our negation: our existence as not-ness is the most fundamental force against identity."

Next time somebody comes to you with a feature request, try this: "Can you tell me a story about a time that you wanted to do that and what you had to do instead?" The first part of the question gives you proper context. The second lets you evaluate the loss.

How did you find these possible solutions?

Why not just keep doing things the same way?

What was happening that made you feel it wasn't working?

[If reality appears as untruth, to understand implies a negative process going against the form in which things appear: science is criticism.]

[As understanding of science changes from 'via negativa' to 'knowledge of reality', power-over undermines its critical power.]

[A rational basis for identity doesn't exist. We follow the chain of dependencies until arriving at some assumption that must be made in order for the system to hold.]

[When we question why things are the way they are, it is often answered within the framework of identity. When we except these boundaries we reinforce them.]

[We can only know about something to the extent that we have created it.]

[Marx does not see science as correct and objective knowledge but as the active movement of criticism and anti-power. Criticism tries to go beyond analysis and understand how a phenomenon is constructed.]

[We cannot stand outside of society. To say that society is sick implies that we too are sick.]

Even the biggest problems in the world are just tiny problems stuck together.