Interesting links

[hawkwing_lb]

sovay on The Avengers.

Brit Mandelo reviews The Moment of Change.

Halftime Between Two Lost Decades.

SF Signal Mind Meld on post-colonial SF.

jennygadget on suppressing women's writing.

karenhealey on the glamorous life of a writer.

Comments

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

Careful. If you keep calling me interesting, it might go to my head.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

You have divined my cunning plan!

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

ha! (also, Karen is hilarious and the Atlantic link is both depressing and yet reassuring for being full of sense.)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

interesting though depressing economic article; tell me, had you seen this (http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/series/beyond-scarcity/), and do you think there's anything to it ?

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

The redefining labour one? It's saying the same things about labour and technology that people have been saying since the 19th century.

Sadly, contra that argument, it doesn't matter how much technology increases the automation of labour processes: as long as that technology is controlled by the upper classes of capitalism, the free time of the working classes translates to freedom to starve. The revolution of attitudes to labour needs to be social, not just technological - and we're presently in the middle of a global retrenchment of conservative ideas about labour and the value of human beings.

tl;dr: I'm a pessimist.