Moon, Exploitation and Opportunity
anarchySF - an anarchist, science fiction podcast17 Loka 2020

Moon, Exploitation and Opportunity

We talk about the excellent solitary space adventure that is Moon (2009). Topics discussed:

- How exploitation is marketed to white men

- Foucault's "Care of the self"

- How space capitalism is an especially risky form of exploitation

- How space can be an opportunity to organize

- The race between capitalist exploitation and worker organization

- Capitalism's obvious failures

Links:

Innuendo Studio's discussion of the right's obsession with cucks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQjVbk6JSck&ab_channel=InnuendoStudios

The Ethics of the Care of the Self as a Practice of Freedom: https://pages.uoregon.edu/koopman/events_readings/cgc/foucault_ethics_concern_for_self.pdf

PhilosophyTube and Mexie's video on the housing market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qihG6AGjkRk&t=1059s&ab_channel=PhilosophyTube

Current Affairs' Fake Nerd Boys of Silicon Valley: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/07/the-fake-nerd-boys-of-silicon-valley

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