NOTES

INTRODUCTION: CIRCLING THE DRAIN

1 Vohs, K., Mead, N. and Goode, M. (2006). “The Psychological Consequences of Money”. Science. 314: 1154-1156.

CHAPTER ONE: MISFUTURES OF THE PRESENT

1 Henley, J. (2018). “Sweden distributes ‘be prepared for war’ leaflet to all 4.8m homes”. Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/21/sweden-distributes-be-prepared-for-war-cyber-terror-attack-leaflet-to-every-home

2 World Wide Fund for Nature (2016). Living Planet Report. Available at http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/lpr_living_planet_report_2016.pdf

3 Lachman, D. (2018). “A Crisis is Coming”. US News. Available at https://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/articles/2018-02-14/us-economy-is-in-danger-of-overheatingand-exploding-into-financial-crisis

4 Basham, B. (2011). “Beware corporate psychopaths — they are still occupying positions of power”. Independent. Available at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/brian-basham-beware-corporate-psychopaths-they-are-still-occupying-positions-of-power-6282502.html

5 Ellis, B.E. (1991). American Psycho. Picador: New York, p. 362.

6 UBS/PwC. (2017). “Billionaires Report: New Value creators Gain Momentum”. Available at https://www.ubs.com/microsites/billionaires-report/en/new-value.html

7 O’Connell, M. (2018). “Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand”. Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand

8 McAndrew, F. (2015). “What Makes a House Feel Haunted?” Psychology Today. Available at https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/out-the-ooze/201511/what-makes-house-feel-haunted

9 Stuckler, D. Basu, S. (2013). The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills. New York: Basic Books.

10 Derrida, J. (1993). Spectres of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International. New York: Routledge.

11 Ibid, p. 29.

12 Fisher, M. (2014). Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures. London: Zero0 Books.

13 Stop Autonomous Weapons (2017). “Slaughterbots”. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

14 Pilkington, E. (2015). “Life as a drone operator: ‘Ever step on ants and never give it another thought?’” Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/18/life-as-a-drone-pilot-creech-air-force-base-nevada

CHAPTER TWO: OPTIMISM IN THE DRONE AGE

1 Sebald, W.G. (2003). The Rings of Saturn. New York: Vintage, pp. 78-79.

2 Mathews, D. and Beauchamp, Z. (2016). “The UN library announced its most-checked-out book of 2015. It’s kind of disturbing.” Vox. Available at https://www.vox.com/2016/1/6/10724560/un-library-war-crimes

3 Ibid.

4 Sebald, W.G. (2001). “Books: Outside the Box — Interview with Malcom Jones.” Newsweek. Available at https://www.newsweek.com/books-outside-box-153935

5 Sebald, The Rings of Saturn, pp. 23-24.

6 Chumley, C. (2013). “Obama brags, in new book: I’m ‘really good at killing people’ with drones”. Washington Times. Available at https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/4/obama-brag-new-book-im-really-good-killing-drones/

7 American Civil Liberties Union (2018). “Targeted Killing”. Available at https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/targeted-killing

8 Chumley, “Obama brags, in new book: I’m ‘really good at killing people’ with drones”.

9 Channel Four Despatches (2018). “InsideFacebook: Secrets of a Social Network”. Available at https://www.channel4.com/programmes/inside-facebook-secrets-of-a-social-network

10 Wiedeman, R. (2018). “The Company Built on a Bluff”. New York Magazine. Available at http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/inside-vice-media-shane-smith.xhtml

11 Pinker, S. (2011). The Better Angles of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. New York: Viking Books.

12 Ibid, p.

13 Pinker, S. (2018). Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. New York: Viking.

14 Ibid, p. 49.

15 Acquilla, J. (2012). “The Big Kill”. Foreign Policy. Available at https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/12/03/the-big-kill/

16 Peterson, J. (2018). “Jordan Peterson talks Lobsters on Channel 4”. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZnygvRRmPEXXV.

17 Dorling, D. (2018). Do We Need Economic Inequality? Cambridge: Polity Press.

18 Ibid, p. 113.

19 Sebald, The Rings of Saturn, pp. 78-79.

CHAPTER THREE: IS CAPITALISM A CULT?

1 Reeves, A. McKee, M. and Stuckler, D. (2014). “Economic Suicides in the Great Recession in Europe and North America”. British Journal of Psychiatry. 20(3): pp. 246-247.

2 Blyth, M. (2013). Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea. New York: University of Oxford Press, p. 229.

3 Becker, G. (2010). “Gary Becker — The Economist’s Economist”. Hoover Institution. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT6TnY6sHcU

4 Festinger, L. Riecken, H. andSchachter, S. (1956). When Prophecy Fails. New York: Harper.

5 Cultwatch (2018). “How to leave and recover from a Religious Cult”. Available at https://www.cultwatch.com/how-to-leave-recover.xhtml

CHAPTER FOUR: SHITTY ROBOTS

1 CNBC (2016). “Hot Robot At SXSW Says She Wants To Destroy Humans”. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_DPi0PmF0

2 Wong, V. (2018). Amazon Knows Alexa Devices Are Laughing Spontaneously And It’s ‘Working To Fix It’”. BuzzFeed. Available at https://www.buzzfeed.com/venessawong/amazon-alexa-devices-are-laughing-creepy?utm_term=.xlPpPQPyB#.ut7eLQLjV

3 Gander, K. (2015). Worker Killed by Robot at Volkswagen Car Factory”. Independent. Available at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/worker-killed-by-robot-at-volkswagen-car-factory-10359557.html

4 Davies, W. (2015). “Silly robots!” Chronicle of Higher Education. Available at http://chronicle.com/article/Silly-Robots-/233965

5 Wakefield, J. (2018). “Are you scared yet? Meet Norman, the psychopathic AI”. BBC. Available at https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44040008

6 Less Wrong (2017). “Paperclip Maximizer”. Available at https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer

7 Yudkowsky, E. (2008). “Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk”. In Global Catastrophic Risks, edited by Nick Bostrom and Milan M.Čirković, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 308–345

8 Greenhouse, S. (2016). “Autonomous vehicles could cost America 5 million jobs. What should we do about it?” LA Times. Available at: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-greenhouse-driverless-job-loss-20160922-snap-story.html

9 Brynjolfsson, E. and McAfee, A. (2014). The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. New York: Norton.

10 Sherwood, H. (2017). “Robot Priest Unveiled in Germany to Mark 500 Years Since Reformation”. Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/30/robot-priest-blessu-2-germany-reformation-exhibition

11 Andrews, T. (2016). “Meet the Robot Monk Spreading the Teachings of Buddhism Around China”. Washington Post. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/27/meet-the-robot-monk-spreading-the-teachings-of-buddhism-around-china/?utm_term=.5b6fdca8498a

12 Miller, D. (2012). “Think You’ve Got a Bad Job? Indian ‘Sewer Diver’ Paid Just £3.50 a Day (Plus a Bottle of Booze) to Unclog Delhi’s Drains”. Daily Mail. Available at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2190251/And-thought-bad-job-Indian-sewer-diver-paid-just-3-50-day-plus-bottle-booze-unclog-Delhis-drains.html

13 Limaye, Y. (2016). “India’s Sewer Workers Risking Their Lives”. BBC. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35958730

14 Booth, R. (2016). “More Than 7m Britons Now in Precarious Employment”. Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/15/more-than-7m-britons-in-precarious-employment

15 Resolution Foundation (2015). “26 percentage point gap between best and worst parts of the UK for BAME employment”. Available at: http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/media/press-releases/26-percentage-point-gap-between-best-and-worst-parts-of-the-uk-for-bame-employment/

16 US Bureau of Labor Statistics (2016). “A Profile of the Working Poor”. Available at: https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/working-poor/2014/pdf/home.pdf

17 Silver, B. (2003). Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870. New York: Cambridge University Press.

18 Maritime Union of Australia (2014). “Industry Wises Up to Automation”. Available at: http://www.mua.org.au/industry_wises_up_to_automation

19 Saulwick, J. (2015). “Sydney’s Patrick Terminal Goes Automated, With Fewer Staff but Dancing Robots”. Sydney Morning Herald. Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydneys-patrick-terminal-goes-automated-with-fewer-staff-but-dancing-robots-20150617-ghqc24.html

20 Scott, A. (2017). “Boeing Studies Pilotless Planes as It Ponders Next Jetliner”. Reuters. Available at http://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-airshow-autonomous-idUSKBN18Z12M

21 Reiner, A. (2016). “Towards the End of Pilots”. Atlantic. Available at: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/has-the-self-flying-plane-arrived/472005/

22 Savage, M. (2015). SocialClassin the 21st Century. London: Penguin.

23 Buranyi, S. (2018). “Dehumanising, Impenetrable, Frustrating: the Grim Reality of Job Hunting in the Age of AI”. Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/mar/04/dehumanising-impenetrable-frustrating-the-grim-reality-of-job-hunting-in-the-age-of-ai.

24 See Eubanks, V. (2018). Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. New York: Macmillan.

CHAPTER FIVE: OFFICE HATESCAPES

1 Walford, J. (2018). “University Tutor Died after ‘Silently Struggling’ with Workload”. Wales Online. Available at https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/university-tutor-died-after-silently-14751533

2 BBC (2019).”France Telecom Suicides: Former Bosses Face Trial”. Available at https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44507597

3 Hirigoyen, M. (2018). “Moral Harassment”. Prevent Violence at Work. Available at http://www.prevention-violence.com/en/int-111.asp

4 Ryall, J. (2018). “Quarter of Japanese Workers Confess They Want to Kill Their Boss”. Telegraph. Available at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/22/quarter-japanese-workers-confess-want-kill-boss/

5 Keltner, D. (2016). The Power Paradox. New York: Penguin,

6 Keltner, D. (2016). “Don’t Let Power Corrupt You”. Harvard Business Review. October: pp. 112-115.

7 Brooks, N, Fritzon, K and Croom, S. (2016). “The Emergence of Noncriminal Psychopathy”. Paper presented at the Australian Psychological Society Conference.

8 Babiak, P. and Hare, R. (2007). Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work. New York: Harpers.

9 See Graeber, D. (2015).The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy. New York: Melville House.

10 Chung, F. (2018). “‘You are really getting on my tits’: Sydney boss slams lazy staff in brutal Friday email”. News.com.au. Available at https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/you-are-really-getting-on-my-tits-sydney-boss-slams-lazy-staff-in-brutal-friday-email/news-story/62e729eddef16cda15e3e6e73d283c1b

11 Moulds, J. (2018). “Robot Managers: The Future of Work or a Step Too Far?” Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/business-to-business/2018/apr/06/robot-managers-howa-firm-automated

12 Buranyi, S. (2018). “Dehumanising, Impenetrable, Frustrating: the Grim Reality of Job Hunting in the Age of AI”. Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/mar/04/dehumanising-impenetrable-frustrating-the-grimrealityof-job-hunting-in-the-age-of-ai.

13 Marsh, L. (2018). “The Coping Economy”. Dissent. Available at https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/coping-economy-mindfulness-goes-corporate

14 Rudd, J. (2017). “Long Working Days Can Cause Heart Problems, Study Says”. Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/14/long-working-days-can-cause-heart-problems-study-says

15 Australia National University (2017). “A Healthy Work Limit Is 39 Hours per Week”. Available at http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/a-healthy-work-limit-is-39-hours-per-week

16 Hill, A. (2017). “There’s a Danger of a Generation Who Can’t Afford to Retire”. Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2017/jan/23/saving-retirement-pension-generation-old-age

CHAPTER SIX: THE PSYCHO-NANNY STATE

1 Department of Homeland Security (2018). “DHS Secretary Nielsen’s Remarks on the Illegal Immigration Crisis”. Available at https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/06/18/dhs-secretary-nielsens-remarks-illegal-immigration-crisis

2 Smith, D. (2018). “Trump Administration Scrambles as Outrage Grows over Border Separations”. Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/18/us-immigration-border-families-separated-children-kirstjen-nielsen

3 Rosenberg, E. (2018). “Ann Coulter Tells Trump That Immigrant Children Are ‘Child Actors’, in Fox News Interview”. Independent. Available at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ann-coulter-fox-news-trump-immigrant-children-child-actors-zero-tolerance-policy-a8405631.html

4 Guardian (2018). “’It’s inhumane’: the Windrush victims who have lost jobs, homes and loved ones”. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/20/its-inhumane-thewindrush-victims-who-have-lost-jobs-homes-and-loved-ones

5 Ibid.

6 Hughes, P. (2018). “Put on a Jamaican accent to avoid attention, British Government tells deportees”. I-News. Available at https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/put-on-a-jamaican-accent-to-avoid-attention-british-government-tells-deportees/

7 O’Connor, L. (2018). “President of American Academy of Paediatrics Calls Trump Border Policy ‘Child Abuse.’” Huffington Post. Available at https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/pediatrics-academy-border-separation-child-abuse_us_5b27f437e4b0783ae12bfe6d

8 Lippmann, W. (1925/1993). The Phantom Public. New York: Macmillan, p. 51.

9 Meier, H. (1995). Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. 125

10 Lockhart, P. R. (2018). “Police shot and killed an unarmed black man in his own backyard. All he was holding was a cellphone”. Vox. Available at https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/3/21/17149092/stephon-clark-police-shooting-sacramento

11 BBC (2018). “Trump space force: US to set up sixth military branch”. Available at https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44527672

12 BBC (2013). “Bain Capital buys stake in UK government blood company”. Available at https://www.bbc.com/news/ uk-politics-23372989

CHAPTER SEVEN: HELL WOULDN’T EVEN HAVE US

1 Donnellan, A. (2018). “Animal Ear Tags among Plastic and Metal Rubbish Being Ground up and Put into Pet Food, Insiders Confirm”. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Available at http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-19/pet-food-insider-lifts-lid-on-plastic-and-rubbish-going-into-pe/9875184

2 CNBC (2009). “Male Chicks Ground up Alive at Egg Hatcheries”. Available at http://www.cbc.ca/news/male-chicks-ground-up-alive-at-egg-hatcheries-1.823644

3 Pachaud, L. (2017). “Working Undercover on a Factory Farm Traumatized Me”. Lilly. Available at https://www.thelily.com/working-undercover-on-a-factory-farm-traumatized-me/

4 Carlson, C. (2012). “Undercover Factory Farm Investigator Shares His Story”. Animals Australia. Available at https://www.animalsaustralia.org/media/opinion.php?op=273

5 Kolbert, E. (2014). The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. New York: Picador.

6 World Wide Fund for Nature (2016). “Living Planet Report”. Available at http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/lpr_living_planet_report_2016.pdf

7 Bar-On, Y. Phillips, R. andMilo, M. (2017). “The Biomass Distribution on Earth”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Available at http://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506

8 Hallmann, C., et al. (2017). “More than 75 Percent Decline over 27 Years in Total Flying Insect Biomass in Protected Areas”. Plos One. Available at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809

9 Jacobs, B. (2018). “Republican Congressman Explains Sea-Level Rise: It’s Rocks Falling Into The Sea”. Huffington Post. Available at https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-congressman-explains-sea-level-rise-its-rocks-falling-into-the-sea_us_5afef746e4b07309e057985b

10 Milman, O. (2014). “Tony Abbott Adviser Warns of Threat of Global Cooling”. Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/14/tony-abbott-adviser-warns-of-threat-of-global-cooling

11 Klein, N. (2015). This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate. New York: Simon & Schuster; David, L. (2006). Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You! New York: Fulcrum Publishing.

12 Moore, J. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. London: Verso.

13 Kolbert, E. (2013). “The Lost World”. New Yorker. Available at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-lost-world-3

14 Jensen, D. (2006). Endgame. New York: Seven Stories Press.

15 Ibid, p. 125.

CHAPTER EIGHT: DIGITAL-TO-DUST

1 Ong, T. (2018). “Amazon patents wristbands that track warehouse employees’ hands in real time”. Verge. Available at https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/1/16958918/amazon-patents-trackablewristband-warehouse-employees

2 Byung-Chul, H. (2017). Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power. London: Verso.

3 Ibid, p. 36.

4 Gray, J. (2014). The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux

CONCLUSION: LOW

1 Fisher, M. and Ambrose, D. (ed.). (2018). k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016). London: Repeater Books.