Jackie Brown

1. Just finished my master’s thesis on the role of financialization in abysmal #LongTermCare (#LTC) outcomes, where I exposed the web of perverse incentives that led to this mess. Here's what I learned 👇

“I think the way that we treat the most vulnerable seniors in our society is really a mark of how we’re doing as a country,” says Jackie Brown. This doc is just the tip of the iceberg to start making real change.

Featuring a stellar line-up of contributors, I’m delighted to see this book out in the world. For more info, see here: doi.org/10.4324/978100…

If polluting a lake can increase GDP because the resulting cleanup stimulates the economy, why do we continue to use it as an indicator of national wealth? In "Missing Values," @jackiebrownTO explores different ways of quantifying a country's wellbeing. maisonneuve.org/article/2023/1…

📆 The @EN_NHC is holding a review panel hearing to examine the human rights impacts of for-profit corporate firms buying affordable rental housing, known as #financialization. The review panel needs your voices! Make a written submission by August 31: bit.ly/3OAt5QR

@DTCochrane @nathan_nun Of course! Looking forward to it

@jackiebrownTO @nathan_nun Jackie! I'll be happy to, but you'll have to give me a bit of time to gather my thoughts in a Twitter friendly thread.

The degrowth debate shows what an immature science economics is. We don’t even understand our own units of measurement.

@FabiusMayhem I somehow missed days 1 through 3... can you point me in the direction of where this mess started?

@DTCochrane @nathan_nun Can you explain further?

@nathan_nun Yes, kind of. I’m referring to the nominal and “real” expressions of GDP, but also measures of productivity.

@BigMeanInternet Also listening in on quarterly earnings calls 👂

Good essay on a mining industry conference. These industry conferences make for great assignments rn, seems like a solid way to keep track of what the capitalists are up to thedriftmag.com/a-good-prospec…

Please consider donating! It is unconscionable that refugee claimants and asylum seekers are without food and water, let alone shelter. Myself and @lorrainelamchop are asking for your help to purchase these items to help keep people hydrated and well. gofundme.com/f/water-and-fo…

@NicaSiegel Also, I don't know if this directly corresponds to your project, but you might be interested in Teresa Brennan if you haven't read her already. Exhausting Modernity: Grounds for a New Economy draws on psychoanalytic theory to examine the tendency toward environmental destruction

@NicaSiegel This sounds fascinating!

Ontario has confirmed it's ending its agreement with the CBSA to hold immigration detainees in its jails, effectively ending the controversial practice across Canada. Here's our initial story: thestar.com/news/canada/20…

@drumm_colin When would you say this shift really took hold? And was there a delay in terms of when it became entrenched in the academic context vs the policy sphere?

it's not an idle claim that this is a paradigm that requires entirely rejecting the discourse we call "economics." there will no longer be "economics," because one of the founding moves of that discourse is to assume away the subsistence constraints postulated by predecessors

the only way to get beyond economics as a paradigm is to formulate a new constitutional discourse based upon a set of enumerated material rights: what standard of living everyone deserves and we can biophysically afford. guarantee that, cap inequality, and forget the rest

@communecore Interesting group of thinkers. What’s the focus of your manuscript?

So many figures like this from the period: the scholar-critic-visionary in the mold of the first generation romantics.

One of the readers of my manuscript suggested I look at the work of William Irwin Thompson. Thompson was a Whitehead student who left academia to become a kind of mystic in the early seventies.

Nervously excited to join Federal Housing Advocate @HousingLogement and awesome researchers @Martine_August @NemoyL @ACORNCanada @jackiebrownTO @ManuelGabarre3 May 9 to tell HUMA why #financialization of housing is a #humanrights issue

@RebTamas The Colonisation of Time by Giordano Nanni: academic.oup.com/manchester-sch…

Your favourite writing on TIME ??? 🕰️🕰️🕰️ Within any nonfiction context is what I’m looking for - critical theory, global philosophy, creative-nonfiction, sociology, science, indigenous studies, memoir, anything !!

@kaibosworth Sounds interesting! When/where will it be published?

@communecore Is this from Against Ecological Sovereignty?

Mick Smith sees how the turn toward sovereign state of emergency thinking re: the ecocrisis will be used. We also see this in mainstream environmentalism’s embrace of outlandish tech “solutions,” green growth, etc. State of emergency as accumulation opportunity.

@sophiepinkhmmm I'd love to see the syllabus for Art, Nature, and Empire if you're willing to share!