Helen Hester
@HelenHester
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Xenofeminist. Haircut enthusiast. Curator @femfutprog. Tweeting in a personal capacity.
London
Joined May 2011
Talking about the myths and perils of commercial co-living as part of Weird Economies' 'Out of Space? London Financescapes' series. Saturday 24th May, 11-5pm at Pelican House, Bethnal Green. Full details for the series here:
weirdeconomies.com
London is a city where international capital returns to roost. Within sight of the radiant behemoths of the financial sector, some of the most deprived communities in the country gaze upon the...
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RT @feminiscity: Tomorrow! Organized by the Political Economy Centre (University of Manchester): .
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RT @kmunro_econ: I’m giving a talk sponsored by the Danish Society for Marxist Studies in Copenhagen on June 3. Free and open to the public….
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Who wore it best? (Slavoj)
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RT @Autonomy_Inst: 🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 'Forum 2029: Building a living standards policy platform for the UK'. The UK needs a strong living stan….
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If you're curious about our new MA in Digital Media, Culture & Economy, come by the UWL open day tomorrow & I'll tell you all about it! I'm there until noon, waiting to chat about labour & ownership in a digital age.
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A new article by myself and @w_stronge, rejecting those neoliberal, up-by-your-boot-straps narratives that equate self-reliance with moral worth.
Labour’s swingeing cuts to benefits continue a long tradition of equating human worth with participation in paid employment — an unnecessary, immoral, counterproductive way to run a society.
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RT @bencsmoke: no matter how hard certain well funded groups of bigots try, you cannot legislate an entire group of people out of existence….
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RT @revsoc21: EMERGENCY DEMO - COME OUT FOR TRANS LIBERATION. Come together with trans organisations, unions, and more for a community-focu….
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If you're considering a taught PG programme, please do get in touch/ apply. It's going to be challenging and interesting and hopefully a lot of fun.
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Genuinely excited to be leading this new Master's programme at the University of West London. It concentrates on issues of work and ownership in a digital age, and will really allow me to integrate my research and my teaching.
uwl.ac.uk
With the digital world transforming how we work, create, and connect, our MA in Digital Media, Culture and Economy degree is your chance to explore these changes and understand their impact. With a...
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RT @BloomsburyPhilo: New on the blog: a Q&A with @HelenHester and @w_stronge on post-work theory and what the future of work could look lik….
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RT @LizaJThompson: #slavojzizek is Post-Work . @HelenHester @w_stronge @BloomsburyPhilo @BloomsburyBooks
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RT @cajanegraedit: Amigxs de #Bilbao:. El próximo jueves 20/3 a las 18:00, @HelenHester en Bizkaia Aretoa de la UPV/EHU, para participar de….
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Transforming the Politics of Housing: an hour of conversation between myself and Alva Gotby.
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As we put it in the book, 'making life intolerable outside of employment is a long-standing crutch of modern breadwinner-focused regimes and the fight against it is a fight for fewer conditions, greater universality and guaranteed security.'.
Gunning for those outside the labour market has a long history throughout capitalism (it's even part of its early history). This is the gravitational pull for all governments: coerce the unemployed, and cover it with comms (usually some form of the "work ethic"). Little thread. .
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