Alexandre Afonso

Leiden University

Tag: Occupy

  • Universities are Full of Bullshit Jobs

    David Graeber writes: “Once, when contemplating the apparently endless growth of administrative responsibilities in British academic departments, I came up with one possible vision of hell. Hell is a collection of individuals who are spending the bulk of their time working on a task they don’t like and are not especially good at. Say they Read.

  • Brazilian Guido Fawkes Masks and Capitalism as a Giant Squid

    This is a factory in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro that produces Guido Fawkes masks – those used by Anonymous. The owner says they’re producing 800 a day to supply the protests that have been taking place in Brazil over the last few weeks. The masks have also been used by the Occupy movement. Read.