Categoría: Retrocapitalism

Escrito por Alex Hess en inglés, traducido al español. En Inglaterra, los conglomerados más exitosos del fútbol mundial se enriquecen cada vez más, mientras que los clubes comunitarios de toda la vida, desde Bury hasta Bolton y Wigan, mueren lentamente en la sombra. Los grandes consorcios de inversión están transformando a peor el deporte que […]

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As the virtual class is a replication of the bourgeois within the Internet shaped by the communications industry, “It is one of the supreme ironies that a primitive form of capitalism, a retro-capitalism, is actualizing virtuality.”

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In 1999, groups of open source software users staged an international protest against Microsoft. They demanded a refund for something they didn’t want, but were forced to pay for: Microsoft Windows 98. Today’s video examines one of these protests, which occurred in California’s Silicon Valley, and the battle that these users fought to get their […]

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Architectural history in an era of capitalist ruin WE LIKE TO THINK OF BUILDINGS as being permanent, unchanging. They feel permanent; after all, it is part of a building’s basic purpose, reliably sheltering us from the elements. But the unfortunate truth is that most buildings do not last long. It might shock you to learn that […]

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Between 1964 and 1965 there occurred a scandal that few remember now, almost as if it has slipped from the popular memory. Known as The Bronswik Affair, it started when normal members of the public began to exhibit strange behaviour, such as the housewife who fed forty-seven packets of washing powder into her washing machine […]

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