Shannon M. Mussett, "Entropic Philosophy: Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
New Books in Systems and Cybernetics
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The Problem of Old Age Under Capitalism
"There's something good is coming. It's not denial and it's not fatalism," he says. "We're not there yet because we got to talk about old age under capitalism." The author has been fascinated by the framing of the elderly as even more othered than the women that she talked about in the second sex. In advanced capitalist society, an aging labor force is nothing but fodder for more labor and more consumption.
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