Tag Archives: Imaginary Labour

Rough Notes on Outlaw Appropriation (Reloaded)

Note: I received some very constructive (but also chastening) feedback on the below. Ordinarily, I don’t think it is particularly good practice to post a version of an article that has been declined for structural and stylistic reasons. However, I can feel that my enthusiasm for the broader project of outlaw appropriation has begun toContinue reading “Rough Notes on Outlaw Appropriation (Reloaded)”

Cracking Capitalism: Myth and Labour in Inventing Anna

My somewhat belated reflections on Inventing Anna (2022) were published last week on Tom Pazderka’s substack A Secret Plot. The article in part seeks to question what it is about contemporary con artists and hustlers that makes them historically distinct (assuming they are indeed historically distinct) from the mythic snake oil salesman that haunts theContinue reading “Cracking Capitalism: Myth and Labour in Inventing Anna”