Tag: capitalism
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Pain is Dead and Other Truisms
Byung-Chul Han’s “The Palliative Society” critiques contemporary society’s aversion to pain, labeling it “algophobia.” He argues that this fear leads to superficiality and a loss of meaning, urging a confrontation with discomfort.
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Post-Capitalist Plastic Ummatics
Plastic ummatics moves between and into the state and society, all the while being confined by neither of the two. Plastic ummatics involves a profound process of unchaining. This unchaining is specifically a horizontal unchaining, an unchaining of human beings from the unjust domination of other human beings so that we can be free to…
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La muerte de la comunidad y el auge del individualismo
Mientras generalmente somos conscientes que vivimos en una época “moderna”, a diferencia de época “medieval” o “antigua,” con mejor tecnología y diferentes normas sociales, sin embargo, nos quedamos ajenas y desconocidos a los aspectos más grandes, totalizadores, y omnipresentes de nuestro mundo.
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Pervasive Capitalism and its Mutations – Does Iqtesaad Offer an Alternative?
From its genesis, capitalism has had near universal acceptance as being inextricably linked with all economic activity: good or bad. This impulsive position continues unabated, despite the tumult of the past few years. Even its detractors have found themselves wanting when trying to expunge the term from their collective psyche; As the fervent critic Ha…
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The GameStop Short Squeeze: An Islamic Perspective
Why did a seemingly ungainly retail video games shop cause such a tumult in the haughty egotistical world of Big Finance? . . . As the saga unfolded . . . more searching questions were raised about the volatile and often vacuous nature of the stock market in a capitalist system. The global capitalist financial structure…
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Pandemic Politics: Neoliberalism and its Faces of Death
A crisis is a turning point wherein an organism undergoes one of two changes; recovery or death. Put differently, it is the question of whether or not the organism’s internal capacities are strong enough to enable recovery without aid of an external mechanism.
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Fitrah in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Monty Python is hardly the place for great philosophical epiphanies, but sometimes inspiration can be found in the strangest of places.
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Legal Pluralism Within International Commercial Law
At the heart of how much of the Muslim-majority world regulates its financial and banking laws, Islamic contract and commercial law extends globally.
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Faithless Fasting: Ramadan in the Modern Political Economy
One of the biggest challenges for corporate America today is diversity: racial, religious, ethnic, sexual, etc.
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Ramadán como antídoto al consumismo materialista
Los musulmanes se han acostumbrado a vivir en perpetuo estado de defensa como precio por su existencia, desplegando fácilmente explicaciones para sus prácticas religiosas y culturales.